TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Abstract
2. List of Tables
3. Chapter I: Literacy Advice to Mothers in the Age of Accountability
   1. The context for this study
   2. Aims of the study
   3. Research questions and methods
   4. Conceptual framework
      1. Literacy and mothering as socially-situated practices
      2. Literacy advice, policy, and research: Inter-textual relationships
   5. Data sources
   6. Significance of the study
   7. Scope and limitations
   8. Organization of the thesis
4. Chapter II: Researching literacy and mothering as discourse: conceptual framework and methods
   1. Critical discourse analysis
      1. A history of the present: Genealogical approaches to analyzing literacy advice discourses
      2. The discursive formation
      3. Discursive strategies
      4. Discursive effects
   2. Analytic lenses
      1. Post-structural feminism
      2. Mothering and literacy as socially-situated practices
   3. Analytic tools
      1. Intertextuality
      2. Multi-vocality
      3. Comparison
      4. Substitution: from parent to mother
   4. Social location and reading identities
      1. Table 1. Analytic Framework: Concepts of Discourse Analysis, Analytic Lenses and Analytic Tools
      2. Table 1 (continued). Analytic Framework: Concepts of Discourse Analysis, Analytic Lenses and Analytic Tools
   5. A genealogical approach to literacy advice to mothers: steps in analysis
      1. Select your topic
      2. Getting to know the data
   6. Conclusion