“And it was all my choice but it didn’t feel like a choice”: a re-examination of interpretation of data using a ‘rhetoric of choice’ lens

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Frost, N. and Bailey-Rodriguez, D. 2015. “And it was all my choice but it didn’t feel like a choice”: a re-examination of interpretation of data using a ‘rhetoric of choice’ lens. Women's Studies International Forum. 53, pp. 192-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2014.12.003
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Title“And it was all my choice but it didn’t feel like a choice”: a re-examination of interpretation of data using a ‘rhetoric of choice’ lens
AuthorsFrost, N. and Bailey-Rodriguez, D.
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This research aims to re-examine interpretations of data collected from second-time 2 mothers about their experiences of becoming a mother to a second child using lenses of 3 rhetoric of choice and choice feminism. The interpretations are reconsidered to identify 4 ways in which tensions between maternal status and researcher positionality have 5 influenced the ways they were reached. The paper describes two studies, each conducted 6 by one of the authors, and the interpretations of the data made at the time the research 7 was carried out. It discusses alternative interpretations and how they challenge both the 8 researcher role and theoretical explanations of gender inequity and attachment. The paper 9 concludes that feminist research can be strengthened by attending to the intersections 10 between maternal status, and positioning as feminist, woman and researcher

Research GroupQualitative and Mixed Methods Research group
PublisherElsevier
JournalWomen's Studies International Forum
ISSN0277-5395
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Online09 Jan 2015
Print01 Nov 2015
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Deposited09 Jun 2015
Completed01 Jan 2015
Accepted09 Jan 2015
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Please cite published article as: Frost, Nollaig and Rodriguez, Deborah (2015) “And it was all my choice but it didn’t feel like a choice”: a re-examination of interpretation of data using a ‘rhetoric of choice’ lens. Women's Studies International Forum, 53 . pp. 192-199.

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