Locating the 'invisible' mum: exploring maternal selfie practices.
This article draws on ten semi-structured interviews with mothers about their maternal selfie practices in order to explore how they use and navigate the form in relation to their motherhood identities and experiences. Whilst work on the form is still emerging, we examine the claim that maternal sel...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Gender Studies Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 386 - 404 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May2024
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