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Laurel Richardson

    Laurel Richardson is a sociologist known for her work on qualitative methodology and the sociology of gender. Her scholarship emphasizes writing as a form of sociological inquiry and the deconstruction of traditional societal binaries. She explores how to engage diverse audiences and how social identities, particularly gender, are constructed within complex relationships. Her approach highlights the significance of narrative and personal experience in examining social phenomena.

    A Story of a Marriage Through Dementia and Beyond
    • "A Story of a Marriage Through Dementia and Beyond is the extraordinary, unflinching account from sociologist Laurel Richardson of her love and caregiving through the last period of her husband's Ernest Lockridge's life - from his diagnosis with Lewy Body Dementia through to his death. This book will appeal to courses in a wide range of disciplines and fields, including health communication, nursing and allied health, courses covering death and dying, end-of-life, and illness care, and of course scholars pursuing autoethnography, creative non-fiction, and qualitative methods"--

      A Story of a Marriage Through Dementia and Beyond