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Motherhood online
- Title
- Motherhood online / edited by Michelle Moravec.
- Publication
- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HQ759 .M684 2011 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Moravec, Michelle.
- Description
- xiv, 317 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "It may take a village to raise a child, but increasingly that means a virtual village. While the media may focus on the so-called 'mommy wars,' and babyrazzi follow every move of celebrity moms, millions of mothers world-wide are creating online communities. These mommy groups provide an alternative context for understanding how women construct modern motherhood together. Motherhood Online explores the mutifaceted lives that moms live online. Ranging from longitudinal studies to focused explorations of identity, and the newest community context, mommy blogs, this book documents the millions of mommies who have found an outlet online. Whether centered on region, religion, race, or something else altogether, these communities of mothers are creating a new space for mom and allowing many women to maintain a grasp, however tenuous, on sanity in this crazy-making world of modern motherhood."-- Publisher description.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- blogs.
- Blogs.
- Blogues.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Preface: How the Internet Saved My Sanity and Other Ways Life Online Shapes Modern Motherhood / Michelle Moravec -- Foreword: The Truth of Motherhood Online / Alexandra Samuel Theoretical Perspectives -- 1. Expectant Motherhood: How Online Communities Shape Pregnancy / Michelle Moravec -- 2. Beyond Discussion Forums: The Transmediated Support Culture of an Online Pregnancy and Mothering Group / Barbara L. Ley -- 3. Online Motherhood: A Community of Mothers Revisited / Patricia Drentea and Jennifer Moren Cross -- 4. Threads of Dissent: Conflict in an Online Community / Sarah Leavitt -- 5. 10 Years Out: Presence and Absence in a Long-term Online Mothers' Community / Lorin Basden Arnold -- Case Studies -- 6. More than Just a Website for Young Mamas: Girl-Mom Members' Strategies for Countering the Dominant Perception of Teen Motherhood / Jenna Vinson -- 7. Closing the Refrigerator: Maternal Empowerment and the MySpace Autie Mommies / Denise Barnum Burgess -- 8. Online Parental Uncertainty in the Experience of a Child's Port Wine Stain / Liesbeth Wiering -- 9. "Mommies Know Best!": Examining Social Support and Constructions of Gender on a Parenting Discussion Board / Ellen Brady -- 10. The Other Side of the (Gender) Coin: Stay-At-Home Fathers' Use of Online Discussion Groups / Curtis B. Livesay -- 11. Constructions of Good Motherhood in an Online Forum for Users of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis / Michelle McGowan -- 12. "Late", "Early", "Never": Time, Gender and Technology in Assisted Reproduction / Venetia Kantsa -- 13. Cyberspace and Contested Meanings of Adoptive Parenthood: A Case Study of Adoptive Parents of Filipino Children / Todd Lindley -- Motherhood Online -- 14. Cyber-Communities and Motherhood Online: A Reflection on Transnational Adoption / Peter Buzzi and Claudia Megele -- Blogs and Community -- 15. Mommy Blogs: The Centrality of Community in the Performance of Online Maternity / Lynne M. Webb and Brittney S. Lee Chapter -- 16. Parenting Children with Autism Online: Creating Community and Support through Blogging / Marceline Thompson-Hayes -- 17. Constrained Agency: Chinese Mothers Blogging their Child Rearing Practices / Yahui Zhang -- 18. Transnational Surrogacy, E-Motherhood, and Nation Building / Sayantani Dasgupta and Shamita Das Dasgupta.
- ISBN
- 1443829137
- 9781443829137
- LCCN
- 2011488848
- OCLC
- ocn710890449
- 710890449
- SCSB-1604461
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library