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

1st Edition

Language, Gender and Parenthood Online Negotiating Motherhood in Mumsnet Talk

By Jai Mackenzie Copyright 2019
134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

134 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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. Using a qualitative approach grounded in feminist poststructuralist theory, Jai Mackenzie uncovers ‘common-sense’ assumptions about gender and parenthood, explores... Read more

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



Biography

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. 

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