In the “Microworld of Motherhood”: Experiencing Loneliness While Being a Mother – An Autoethnographic Study Cover Image

W „mikroświecie macierzyństwa” – doświadczanie samotności macierzyńskiej w badaniu autoetnograficznym
In the “Microworld of Motherhood”: Experiencing Loneliness While Being a Mother – An Autoethnographic Study

Author(s): Colette Szczepaniak
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: loneliness; motherhood; Goffman; frames; autoethnography

Summary/Abstract: The author uses autoethnography to analyze one of the “microworlds of motherhood”. The interpretation of this particular “microworld” in this text is made from the perspective of Erving Goffman’s “frame” as a scheme of interpretation “anchored” in the marinization of everyday life. The author, referring to the literature on research on motherhood and the feeling of loneliness, attempts to redefine the frame of a single mother. The autoethnographic approach here is a “frame performance” and an invitation for the readers to reflect on their own parental experiences and to delve into their own parental emotions.

  • Issue Year: 18/2022
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 152-167
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish