Lone Motherhood, Gendered Practices of Resistance and the Approach of Institutional Ethnography

This paper focuses on how the sociological approach of Institutional Ethnography (IE) (Smith 1987, 1990, 2005) contributes to identifying the ‘research problematic’ and frame the process of accessing the fieldwork and interpreting the early findings of the research ‘Study on TRansition and Exclusion in Society of Single-Mums (STRESS-Mums)’. 

This paper was presented at the Conference AIS-Convegno Studi di Genere “Studi di genere e le nuove sfide del XXI secolo. Forme familiari, relazioni intime, genitorialità”,19-20 March 2021, Narni, Italy