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Parenting gone wired: empowerment of new mothers on the internet?
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The extension of information and communication technologies is purported to provide great opportunities for women, with the potential for empowerment and feminist activism. This paper contributes to the debate about women and cyberspace through a focus on the role of the internet in the lives of a group of technologically proficient, socially advantaged white heterosexual new mothers. The internet played a central role in providing virtual social support and alternative information sources which increased these women's real sense of empowerment in the transition to motherhood. Simultaneously, however, very traditional stereotypes of mothering and gender roles persisted. A paradox is evident whereby the internet was both liberating and constraining: it played an important social role for some women while at the same time it encouraged restrictive and unequal gender stereotypes in this particular community of practice. An examination of new virtual parenting spaces therefore has a contribution to make in understanding changing parenting practices in the new millennium.
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- Authors
- Madge, C., & O'Connor, H.
- Venue
- Social & Cultural Geography
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2006-04
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 199-220
- ISSN
- 1464-9365 (ISSN-L)
- 1470-1197
- OpenAlex
- W1986186225
- Cited by
- 296
- References
- 74
- FWCI
- 15.56
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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