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'I had to work through what people would think of me': negotiating 'problematic single motherhood' as a solo or single adoptive mum.

This article considers how five single mothers, who used adoption or donor conception to bring children into their lives, negotiate a persistent and pervasive discourse of 'problematic single motherhood' in their interview talk. Tactics of intersubjectivity (Bucholtz & Hall [2005]. Identity and inte...

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Published in:Critical Discourse Studies Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 88 - 106
Main Author: Mackenzie, Jai
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan2023
Subjects:
Single mothers
Motherhood
Social status
Middle class
Single women
Social classes
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