Accept the New Role: Ideologies of Self-Transformation and Gender Roles in Chinese Parenting Advice for Novice Fathers on Xiaohongshu
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
|---|---|
| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | School of Foreign Languages, Central China Normal University, China |
| ANO | Não informado |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Journal of Asian and African Studies |
| ISSN | 0021-9096 |
| E-ISSN | 1745-2538 |
| EDITORA | Annual Reviews (United States) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00219096251357967 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
Resumo
This study employs feminist critical discourse analysis to explore parenting advice for novice fathers on Xiaohongshu, a leading Chinese social media platform. The findings reveal that while the advice encourages greater paternal involvement in child-rearing, it paradoxically reinforces essentialist gender roles based on biological sex differences. It also remasculinizes and neoliberalizes involved fatherhood by framing it as a project of self-transformation, which contrasts with the assumption that mothers' roles are inherently 'given'—that is, treated as natural, self-evident, and unquestionable. This neoliberal conceptualization of involved fatherhood further individualizes paternal responsibilities, potentially obscuring real-life constraints on fathers.