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

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Jai Mackenzie, Jai (Teaching Fellow in the Department Mackenzie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367733773
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73377-3
• No. of pages: 124
• Series: Routledge Focus on Language and Social Media
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics