Lisa Hammond, "Blogging Motherhood: Redefining Literary and Cultural Definitions of Maternal Identity" (2008)

Lisa Hammond, "Blogging Motherhood: Redefining Literary and Cultural Definitions of Maternal Identity" (2008)

Motherhood
Identity
Culture
Maternity
Women's studies
Gender roles
Gender studies
Participatory culture
Media studies

Women have always written about mothering, but as they have begun to write weblogs exploring maternal identity, their ways of writing are evolving as a result of the use of this new technology, beginning an exciting redefinition of textual composition and publication at the same time they are redefining the roles of mothers in our culture.

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Blogging Motherhood: Redefining Literary and Cultural Definitions of Maternal Identity

Lisa Hammond, Ph.D.

November 2008

South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention

Louisville, Kentucky

“‘MommyBlogging is a radical act’: Weblog Communities and the Construction of Maternal Identities.” Mothers Who Deliver: Feminist Interventions in Interpersonal and Public Discourse. Ed. Pegeen Reichert Powell and Jocelyn Fenton Stitt. SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory, series ed. Michelle A. Massé. New York: SUNY Press, 2010. 77-98.

Humanities