Gender, discourse and semiotics: The politics of parenthood representations

Discourse and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 373-399

  Lazar, Michelle M ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Critical discourse analysis; Discourse; Gender symmetry and asymmetry; Parenthood motherhood fatherhood ; Semiotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034367588     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926500011003005     Document Type: Article

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