May 2009
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Mommyblogging is a way for moms to share the good, bad and ugly, YFile, October 26, 2009
Mothering and Blogging Review at Unwellness.com
Mothering and Blogging Review at Postcards from the Mothership
Mothering and Blogging Review at Pickle Me This
Table of Contents
Introduction
May Friedman and Shana Calixte
Foreword: Small World: Maternal blogging, virtual friendship, and the computer-mediated self
Judith Stadtman Tucker
Chapter One: Someone Else's Shoes: How On-Blog Discourse Changed a Real Life Adoption
Dawn Friedman
Chapter Two: Blogging Pregnancy: Ultrasonography, Connectivity and Identity Construction
Julie Palmer
Chapter Three: I Kid You Not: How the Internet Talked Me Out of Traditional Mommyhood
Jennifer Gilbert
Chapter Four: Kindred Keyboard Connections: How Blogging Helped a Deafblind Mother Find
a Living, Breathing Community
Lisa Ferris
Chapter Five: Marginality in the Mamasphere: Queers Racializing the Family Tree
Shana Calixte and Jillian Johnson
Chapter Six: Meter Politikon: On the “politics” of mommyblogging
Catherine Conners
Chapter Seven: Blog for Rent: How marketing is changing our mothering conversations
Jen Lawrence
Chapter Eight: LesbianFamily.org: Expanding the Understanding of Motherhood and Visibility
of Lesbians, or "Um. If you don't mind my asking…how does a lesbian get pregnant?"
Liza Barry-Kessler
Chapter Nine: Beyond Cute: A mom, a blog, and a question of content
Melissa Wilkins
Chapter Ten: Blogging the Romanian Mother: “Motherhood” and “Mothering” Intertwined
Oana Petrica
Chapter Eleven: Web 2.0, Meet the Mommyblogger
Ann Douglas
Chapter Twelve: Schadenfreude for Mittelschmerz? Or, Why I Read Infertility Blogs
May Friedman
Chapter Thirteen: “HEY CELEBS! QUIT THAT BEHAVING! DON'T MAKE US COME
DOWN THERE!”: Celebrity Moms, Babies, and Blogs
Elizabeth Podnieks
Contributor Biographies
Demeter Press c/o
Association for Research on Mothering
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4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON, Canada, M3J 1P3
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