Laura Coffey-Glover
Biographic Data
| ID | 132214 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Coffey-Glover |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Coffey-Glover |
| SIGNATURE | COFFEY-GLOVER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nottingham Trent University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Teamwork to Make the Dream Work: Representations of Non-Birthing Partners in Infant Feeding Advice Materials
Infant feeding advice typically focuses on mothers, reflecting societal expectations of women as primary caregivers responsible for most aspects of childrearing, and the message that ‘breast is best’ when it comes to infant nutrition. The representation of partners in infant feeding materials is currently an under-represented area of critical discourse studies. However, neglecting partners’ involvement in infant feeding only hinders the efforts o…
Language, Gender, and Health Inequalities: An Introduction
At the breast is best?’ A corpus-informed feminist critical discourse analysis of the marginalisation of expressing human milk in online infant feeding promotional discourse
Introducing mediated discrimination: Intersections of gender, sexuality and media discourse
Balancing family time with fighting villains’
This study provides a feminist stylistic account of gendered agency in a set of Disney Heroes collectible trading cards designed for young children. Through a mixed-methods analysis of grammatical, semantic and social agency in the texts, we show how the representation of male and female characters in these cards reinforces limiting, and potentially damaging, gender norms around men being more socially agentive, having more impact on the world ar…
The boob diaries: Discourses of breastfeeding in ‘exclusive pumping’ blogs
Discourses of (hetero)sexism in popular music: The legacy ofBlurred Lines
This article analyses interview data to explore how participants negotiated discourses of (hetero)sexism in relation to the controversial pop songBlurred Lines.Our previous work, based on questionnaire data, interrogated interpretations ofBlurred Lines(Handforth, Paterson, Coffey-Glover & Mills 2017) and showed how participants drew on discourses of sexism in their responses. Several participants experienced significant conflict in their interpre…
Discourses of marriage in same-sex marriage debates in the UK press 2011–2014
This paper interrogates media representations of same-sex marriage debates in the UK using a combination of corpus linguistics tools and close reading, and drawing on Queer Linguistics. Following related work by Bachmann (2011) , Baker (2004) , and Love and Baker (2015) , we analyse a 1.3 million-word corpus of UK national newspaper texts compiled for the Discourses of Marriage Research Group. Our corpus stretches from September 2011 and the anno…
Reading between Blurred Lines: The complexity of interpretation
Identity and naming practices in British marriage and civil partnerships
This article demonstrates the continued prevalence of traditional, heteronormative practices regarding marriage and naming practices, and also considers the complex choices made by same-sex couples who marry in relation to whether there are any benefits in changing their surname. The study draws on data from an online survey of 1,000 respondents, and reveals that it continues to be viewed as more ‘normal’ for a woman to take her husband’s surname…
Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage
In this article, we take a queer linguistics approach to the analysis of data from British newspaper articles that discuss the introduction of same-sex marriage. Drawing on methods from critical discourse analysis (CDA) and corpus linguistics, we focus on the construction of agency in relation to the government extending marriage to same-sex couples, and those resisting this. We show that opponents to same-sex marriage are represented and represe…
Ideologies of masculinity in women’s magazines
This article reports on an analysis of ideologies of masculinity in a corpus of women’s magazines from a (feminist) critical stylistic perspective. I identify four core themes of ideologies of masculinity produced via assumed and implied meanings. My discussion of these themes demonstrates how the texts’ constructions of masculinity ultimately uphold gender dichotomies, denying a performative understanding of ‘gender’ in a post-structuralist age.…
Negotiating stance within discourses of class: Reactions to Benefits Street
In this article, we examine the way that audiences respond to particular representations of poverty. Using clips from the Channel 4 television programme Benefits Street we conducted focus groups in four locations across the United Kingdom, working with people from different socioeconomic backgrounds who had different experiences with the benefits system. Benefits Street (2014) is an example of reality television where members of the public are fo…
Implicit homophobic argument structure: Equal-marriage discourse inThe Moral Maze
This article analyses the linguistic and discursive elements which contribute to the production of implicit homophobia. Explicit homophobia has been well documented and strategies for countering discriminatory language have been developed (Baker 2014, Leap 2012). However, our interest here is in documenting implicit homophobia, where homophobic beliefs are only hinted at, are disassociated from the speaker, or are embedded within discursive and a…
Implicit homophobic argument structure: Equal-marriage discourse inThe Moral Maze
This article analyses the linguistic and discursive elements which contribute to the production of implicit homophobia. Explicit homophobia has been well documented and strategies for countering discriminatory language have been developed (Baker 2014, Leap 2012). However, our interest here is in documenting implicit homophobia, where homophobic beliefs are only hinted at, are disassociated from the speaker, or are embedded within discursive and a…
Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage
In this article, we take a queer linguistics approach to the analysis of data from British newspaper articles that discuss the introduction of same-sex marriage. Drawing on methods from critical discourse analysis (CDA) and corpus linguistics, we focus on the construction of agency in relation to the government extending marriage to same-sex couples, and those resisting this. We show that opponents to same-sex marriage are represented and represe…
Negotiating stance within discourses of class: Reactions to Benefits Street
In this article, we examine the way that audiences respond to particular representations of poverty. Using clips from the Channel 4 television programme Benefits Street we conducted focus groups in four locations across the United Kingdom, working with people from different socioeconomic backgrounds who had different experiences with the benefits system. Benefits Street (2014) is an example of reality television where members of the public are fo…
Identity and naming practices in British marriage and civil partnerships
This article demonstrates the continued prevalence of traditional, heteronormative practices regarding marriage and naming practices, and also considers the complex choices made by same-sex couples who marry in relation to whether there are any benefits in changing their surname. The study draws on data from an online survey of 1,000 respondents, and reveals that it continues to be viewed as more ‘normal’ for a woman to take her husband’s surname…
Ideologies of masculinity in women’s magazines
This article reports on an analysis of ideologies of masculinity in a corpus of women’s magazines from a (feminist) critical stylistic perspective. I identify four core themes of ideologies of masculinity produced via assumed and implied meanings. My discussion of these themes demonstrates how the texts’ constructions of masculinity ultimately uphold gender dichotomies, denying a performative understanding of ‘gender’ in a post-structuralist age.…
At the breast is best?’ A corpus-informed feminist critical discourse analysis of the marginalisation of expressing human milk in online infant feeding promotional discourse
Introducing mediated discrimination: Intersections of gender, sexuality and media discourse
Discourses of (hetero)sexism in popular music: The legacy ofBlurred Lines
This article analyses interview data to explore how participants negotiated discourses of (hetero)sexism in relation to the controversial pop songBlurred Lines.Our previous work, based on questionnaire data, interrogated interpretations ofBlurred Lines(Handforth, Paterson, Coffey-Glover & Mills 2017) and showed how participants drew on discourses of sexism in their responses. Several participants experienced significant conflict in their interpre…
Reading between Blurred Lines: The complexity of interpretation
Ideologies of masculinity in women’s magazines
This article reports on an analysis of ideologies of masculinity in a corpus of women’s magazines from a (feminist) critical stylistic perspective. I identify four core themes of ideologies of masculinity produced via assumed and implied meanings. My discussion of these themes demonstrates how the texts’ constructions of masculinity ultimately uphold gender dichotomies, denying a performative understanding of ‘gender’ in a post-structuralist age.…
Negotiating stance within discourses of class: Reactions to Benefits Street
In this article, we examine the way that audiences respond to particular representations of poverty. Using clips from the Channel 4 television programme Benefits Street we conducted focus groups in four locations across the United Kingdom, working with people from different socioeconomic backgrounds who had different experiences with the benefits system. Benefits Street (2014) is an example of reality television where members of the public are fo…
Implicit homophobic argument structure: Equal-marriage discourse inThe Moral Maze
This article analyses the linguistic and discursive elements which contribute to the production of implicit homophobia. Explicit homophobia has been well documented and strategies for countering discriminatory language have been developed (Baker 2014, Leap 2012). However, our interest here is in documenting implicit homophobia, where homophobic beliefs are only hinted at, are disassociated from the speaker, or are embedded within discursive and a…
Reading between Blurred Lines: The complexity of interpretation
Identity and naming practices in British marriage and civil partnerships
This article demonstrates the continued prevalence of traditional, heteronormative practices regarding marriage and naming practices, and also considers the complex choices made by same-sex couples who marry in relation to whether there are any benefits in changing their surname. The study draws on data from an online survey of 1,000 respondents, and reveals that it continues to be viewed as more ‘normal’ for a woman to take her husband’s surname…
Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage
In this article, we take a queer linguistics approach to the analysis of data from British newspaper articles that discuss the introduction of same-sex marriage. Drawing on methods from critical discourse analysis (CDA) and corpus linguistics, we focus on the construction of agency in relation to the government extending marriage to same-sex couples, and those resisting this. We show that opponents to same-sex marriage are represented and represe…
Discourses of marriage in same-sex marriage debates in the UK press 2011–2014
This paper interrogates media representations of same-sex marriage debates in the UK using a combination of corpus linguistics tools and close reading, and drawing on Queer Linguistics. Following related work by Bachmann (2011) , Baker (2004) , and Love and Baker (2015) , we analyse a 1.3 million-word corpus of UK national newspaper texts compiled for the Discourses of Marriage Research Group. Our corpus stretches from September 2011 and the anno…
Discourses of (hetero)sexism in popular music: The legacy ofBlurred Lines
This article analyses interview data to explore how participants negotiated discourses of (hetero)sexism in relation to the controversial pop songBlurred Lines.Our previous work, based on questionnaire data, interrogated interpretations ofBlurred Lines(Handforth, Paterson, Coffey-Glover & Mills 2017) and showed how participants drew on discourses of sexism in their responses. Several participants experienced significant conflict in their interpre…
The boob diaries: Discourses of breastfeeding in ‘exclusive pumping’ blogs
Balancing family time with fighting villains’
This study provides a feminist stylistic account of gendered agency in a set of Disney Heroes collectible trading cards designed for young children. Through a mixed-methods analysis of grammatical, semantic and social agency in the texts, we show how the representation of male and female characters in these cards reinforces limiting, and potentially damaging, gender norms around men being more socially agentive, having more impact on the world ar…
At the breast is best?’ A corpus-informed feminist critical discourse analysis of the marginalisation of expressing human milk in online infant feeding promotional discourse
Introducing mediated discrimination: Intersections of gender, sexuality and media discourse
Teamwork to Make the Dream Work: Representations of Non-Birthing Partners in Infant Feeding Advice Materials
Infant feeding advice typically focuses on mothers, reflecting societal expectations of women as primary caregivers responsible for most aspects of childrearing, and the message that ‘breast is best’ when it comes to infant nutrition. The representation of partners in infant feeding materials is currently an under-represented area of critical discourse studies. However, neglecting partners’ involvement in infant feeding only hinders the efforts o…
Language, Gender, and Health Inequalities: An Introduction
Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies in Language (6 works)