'Parenting' or 'mothering'? The case of modern childcare magazines

Discourse and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 503-527

  Sunderland, Jane ^a,b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourses; Fatherhood; Gender; Magazines; Parenting; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745327798     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926506063126     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Althusser, Louis (1984) Essays on Intertextuality. Verso: London.
2. Benwell, Bethan (2002) 'Is There Anything "New" About These Lads?: The Textual and Visual Construction of Masculinity in Men's Magazines', in L. Litosseliti and J. Sunderland (eds) Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis, pp. 149-174. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
3. Benwell, Bethan (2004) 'Ironic Discourse: Evasive Masculinity in Men's Lifestyle Magazines', Men and Masculinities 7 (1). 3-21.
4. Bergvall, Victoria (1999) 'Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Language and Gender', Language in Society 28 (2). 273-293.
5. Brandth, Berit and Kvande, Elin (1998) 'Masculinity and Childcare: The Reconstruction of Fathering', The Sociological Review 46 (2). 292-313.
6. Caldas-Coulthard, Carmen Rosa (1996) '"Women Who Pay for Sex. And Enjoy It." Transgression versus Morality in Women's Magazines', in Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard and Malcolm Coulthard (eds) Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis, pp. 250-270. London: Routledge.
7. Cameron, Deborah (1992) Feminism and Linguistic Theory (2nd edn). London: Macmillan.
8. Coates, Jennifer (1997) 'Competing Discourses of Femininity', in H. Kotthof and R. Wodak (eds) Communicating Gender in Context, pp. 285-314. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
9. Fairclough, Norman (1995) Critical Discourse Analysis. London: Longman.
10. Fairclough, Norman (2000) New Labour, New Language? London: Routledge.
11. Fairclough, Norman (2003) Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research. London: Routledge.
12. Frazer, June M. and Frazer, Timothy C. (1993) 'Father Knows Bestand The Cosby Show: Nostalgia and the Sitcom Tradition', Journal of Popular Culture 27 (3). 163-172.
13. Jackson, Peter, Stevenson, Nick and Brooks, Kate (2001) Making Sense of Men's Magazines. Oxford: Polity Press.
14. Kress, Gunther and van Leeuwen, Theo (1996) Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. London: Routledge.
15. Lazar, Michelle (2000) 'Gender, Discourse and Semiotics: The Politics of Parenthood Representations', Discourse and Society 11 (3). 373-400.
16. Lazar, Michelle (2002) 'Consuming Personal Relationships: The Achievement of Feminine Self-identity through Other-centredness', in L. Litosseliti and J. Sunderland (eds) Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis, pp. 111-128. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
17. McKay, Jenny (2000) The Magazines Handbook. London. Routledge.
18. McLoughlin, Linda (2000) The Language of Magazines. London: Routledge
19. Marshall, Hariette (1991) 'The Social Construction of Motherhood: An Analysis of Childcare and Parenting Manuals', in Ann Woollett Phoenix and Eva Lloyd (eds) Motherhood: Meanings, Practices and Ideologies, pp. 66-85. London: Sage.
20. Mills, Sara (1992) 'Knowing your Place: A Marxist Feminist Stylistics Analysis', in Michael Toolan (ed.) Language, Text and Context: Essays in Stylistics, pp. 182-205. London: Routledge.
21. Potter, Jonathan (1996) Representing Reality: Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction. London: Sage.
22. Reep, Diana C. and Dambrot, Faye H. (1994) 'TV Parents: Fathers (and now Mother) Know Best', Journal of Popular Culture 28 (2). 13-23.
23. Rich, Adrianne (1976) Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution. New York: W.W. Norton.
24. Rich, Adrianne (1980) 'Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence', Signs 5 (4). 631-660.
25. Smith, Dorothy (1988) 'Femininity as Discourse', in Leslie G. Roman and Linda Christian-xSmith with Elizabeth Ellsworth (eds) Becoming Feminine: The Politics of Popular Culture, pp. 37-58. London: Falmer Press.
26. Sunderland, Jane (1991) 'The Decline of Man', Journal of Pragmatics 16: 505-522.
27. Sunderland, Jane (2000) 'Parenthood Discourses: The Construction of Fatherhood and Motherhood in Parentcraft Literature', Discourse and Society 11 (2). 249-274.
28. Sunderland, Jane (2002) 'Baby Entertainer, Bumbling Assistant and Line Manager: Discourses of Paternal Identity in Parentcraft Texts', in J. Sunderland and L. Litosseliti (eds.) Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis, pp. 293-324. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
29. Sunderland, Jane (2004) Gendered Discourses. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
30. Sutton, Laurel (1999) 'All Media are Created Equal: Do-It-Yourself Identity in Alternative Publishing', in M. Bucholtz, A. C. Liang and L. A. Sutton (eds) Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse, pp. 163-180. New York: Oxford University Press.
31. Talbot, Mary (1998) Language and Gender. Cambridge: Polity Press.
32. Tincknell, Estella and Chambers, Deborah (2002) 'Performing the Crisis: Fathering, Gender, and Representation in Two 1990s Films, "The Full Monty" and "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" 1994-1997', Journal of Popular Film and Television 29 (4). 146-155.
33. Van Leeuwen, Theo (1995) 'Representing Social Action', Discourse and Society 6 (1). 81-106.
34. Van Leeuwen, Theo (1996) 'The Representation of Social Actors', in C. Caldas-Coulthard and M. Coulthard (eds) Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis, pp. 32-70. London: Routledge.
35. Walsh, Clare (2002) Gender and Discourse: Language and Power in Politics, the Church and Organisations. London: Longman.
36. White, Cynthia (1977) The Women's Periodical Press 1946-1976 (Report for the Royal Commission on the Press). London: HMSO.
37. Winship, Janice (1987) Inside Women's Magazines. London: Pandora.