Language, Gender and Parenthood Online: Negotiating Motherhood in Mumsnet Talk

ISBN-13: 9780367733773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 124 str.

Jai MacKenzie

Opis

Language, Gender and Parenthood Online explores the digital interactions of parents on the UK-based internet discussion forum Mumsnet Talk, a space dominated by users sharing a common identification as women, parents and mothers. This is key reading for students, scholars and researchers in the field of language and gender, as well as l

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Analyzing language, gender and parenthood online: a feminist poststructuralist approach; Chapter 3. Constructing gender and parenthood in digital contexts; Chapter 4. Researching Mumsnet Talk; Chapter 5. Discourses of gendered parenthood in Mumsnet Talk; Chapter 6. Negotiating, resisting and subverting discourses of gendered parenthood in Mumsnet Talk; Chapter 7. Conclusion: language, gender and parenthood online; References; Index

O autorze

Jai Mackenzie is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Nottingham. Her primary research interests lie in explorations of language, gender, sexuality and parenthood, especially in new media contexts.