Resumen de Bad mothers, good mothers and professional mothers: a study on narratives on maternity in Spanish Instagram spaces
This paper focuseson ananalysisof the narratives present in a set of eight Instagram accounts devoted to sharing information on maternity in the Spanish context. In a qualitative approach that usesparticipant observationand content analysis(5184 posts), the main objective is to identify the narratives1surroundingmaternity and to elaborate their relationship with feminist discourses, thus comparing them with previous and current conceptions and representations of motherhoodin media.A second aim is to understand the role of information and expertise in these spaces. The results revealthree approaches: affirmative and child-centred narratives, feminist counter-narratives, and discourses on professionalization and authoritative knowledge.
