Women, food, and families / Nickie Charles and Marion Kerr.

  • Nickie Charles
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[1988]
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Credit: Women, food, and families / Nickie Charles and Marion Kerr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Foreword and acknowledgements The research on which this book is based was carried out by us jointly in the Department of Sociology, University of York. Marion wrote the original research proposal and got the project off the ground, but together we developed ideas and devised detailed questions, and we shared the interviewing and analysis as well as the writing of the research reports. We had intended that the writing of the book would also be equally shared but due to new and competing work commitments this was not possible. If Nickie had not been prepared to take on this task the book might never have become a reality and she has played the major part in producing this account of our findings. We owe a debt of gratitude to the many people who helped us in the course of our research. Our first thanks must go to all the women who participated in the interviews. It is their experi¬ ences on which this book is based and we have learnt a great deal from our discussions with them. For reasons of confiden¬ tiality they remain anonymous and, for the same reason, we have changed all the names that appear in the book. Some of them will, perhaps, recognise themselves. All of them gave generously of their time and interest. Linda Bretherton deserves a special mention for her tran¬ scription of hundreds of hours of recorded interviews, for her typing of the research reports and for bearing with us and the project for four and a half years. Diana Estep and Lyn Langford shared the interviewing with us and their approach often added new dimensions to the topics covered during the interviews. Dr Luis Valenzuela painstakingly counted and coded the diary material, Dr Alison Black provided invaluable advice on the
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