The third issue of the IGALA BLOG is out!
I am delighted to announce that the 3rd issue of the IGALA Blog is out! Before I introduce the contributors and the topic of this issue,...
Intersectionality: what is it, and what can it be?
Intersectionality involves making a conceptual distinction between gender and/or sexuality and something else - social class, ethnicity,...
The “New” Intersectionality?
Intersectionality has been popular in sociolinguistics for several decades (Eckert 1989; and others). The notion of intersectionality...
Analysing Mumsnet Talk at the Intersection of Gender and Class
When I started my PhD, exploring the discursive construction of motherhood in the Mumsnet ‘talk’ discussion forum, my attention was...
‘Public voices, private voices: an investigation of the discourses of gender and age’
‘Beyond 40 there is silence’ (Twigg 2010: 485) I have recently completed my PhD thesis at the University of Birmingham, UK. It reports...