- Title
- Hip Mama: Mother outlaws in cyberspaces
- Creator
- Goriss-Hunter, Anitra
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/169556
- Identifier
- vital:14020
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781772580983
- Abstract
- Becoming a mother is cataclysmic. It is experienced in a myriad of ways but always the act signals change. As an academic, I turned to words, thoughts, and ideas to help me understand what I felt to be a complete and sometimes terrifying transformation of maternity. I found a copy of Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born and read it. Rich’s descriptions of the joys of mothering as well as her honest and critical insights into the institution of motherhood spoke about her journey into maternity. She was also speaking parts of my story of mothering. At the time that I discovered Rich’s maternal writings, I had completed a project on the “bold new territory” of cyberspace. Having enjoyed the fiery feminism of the geekgirls, grrrls, and other activists as well as being excited by Rich’s work, I turned to cyberspace, hungry for stories of mothering. What I found intriguing in this domain was the comingling of convention and subversion, and the enormous possibility for change. In the hope of finding representations of maternal bodies going beyond the normative images, I looked to an investigation of the cyber-realm and the potential of this domain to overturn dominant discourses of motherhood. "From chapter"
- Publisher
- Demeter Press
- Relation
- Taking the village online; mothers, motherhood and social media Chapter 9 p. 153-168
- Rights
- Copyright Demeter Press
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Motherhood; Social media; Mothers
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