Discursive Constructions of Motherhood: A Feminist Analysis of Social Media Discourses about Motherhood, Religion, and 19 Kids & Counting
This essay is a feminist analysis of social media discourses about motherhood, religion, and the reality television show 19 Kids & Counting. Social media discourses about the Duggar family and the relationship between motherhood and religion reveal important connections among audience digital in...
| Published in: | Journal of media and religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2019]
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Journal of media and religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 18, Issue: 4, Pages: 134-147 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Duggar, Michelle 1966-
/ Motherhood
/ 19 Kids and Counting
/ Social media
/ Christianity
/ Discourse
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion ZB Sociology |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | This essay is a feminist analysis of social media discourses about motherhood, religion, and the reality television show 19 Kids & Counting. Social media discourses about the Duggar family and the relationship between motherhood and religion reveal important connections among audience digital interactivity, the role of motherhood in the series, the disconnect between representations of Christian motherhood in the series, and constructions of good and bad motherhood within religious contexts. This study provides support for the theory of digital interactivity and highlights disconnects between positive representations of Christian motherhood in 19 Kids and Counting and discourses surrounding Christian motherhood and Michelle Duggar on Twitter and Facebook. Ultimately, social and cultural understandings of media representations of religion and motherhood could be enhanced by more feminist theology perspectives. |
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| ISSN: | 1534-8415 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of media and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/15348423.2019.1696117 |