Helena Austin

List of John Benjamins publications for which Helena Austin plays a role.

Articles

Motherhood is under review. What counts as a ‘good mother’ is receiving attention in both popular and academic contexts (Arendell, 2000; Hays, 1996). The mothers we spoke with are judged not to be ‘good’ mothers by medical professionals, teachers, friends and family, because they do not have… read more
Austin, Helena and Richard Fitzgerald 2007 Resisting categorisation: An ordinary motherLanguage as Action, Nevile, Maurice and Johanna Rendle-Short (eds.), pp. 36.1–36.13 | Article
In this paper we use membership category analysis to examine the way an interviewee utilises category work in order to resist the possible accusation of being a bad mother and instead posit her mothering as ordinary. Through our analysis we explore the interactional work of ascribing and resisting… read more