Interpreting images of motherhood: The contexts and dynamics of collective viewing

Sociological Research Online

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Lomax, Helen ^a   Fink, Janet ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audience; Conversation analysis; Motherhood; Photography; Reflexivity; Visual methods; Visual sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956071486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13607804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5153/sro.2157     Document Type: Article

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