Widowhood : feminine identity and relationships in an Australian country town

Abstract

This ethnography is about widowhood and identity - what it is like to be a widow in an Australian country own . However, these are my interpretations of other women's words and experiences ; interpretations shaped by the fieldwork situation in which I found myself as well as by more general theoretical and methodological concerns . This introductory chapter is an accounting of these factors, which are inextricably part of the ethnography to follow.