Monthly Archives: March 2011

Mothers, sons and masculinities

In this third post in my series on boys’ relationships with their mothers, I want to explain how my interest in the topic came about, and why I made it the focus of a research study. I first became interested … Continue reading

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Young men, mothers and family relationships

In this second post in my series on boys’ relationships with their mothers, I want to say something about the background to my research on this topic. As I noted in the last post, studies of young masculinity have until … Continue reading

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Mummy’s boys? Young men and maternal relationships

This is the first of a new series of posts, exploring boys’ relationships with their mothers, in which I’ll be sharing the findings from a small-scale research study I conducted a little while ago. My interest in this topic is … Continue reading

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