Call for Panelist, Performing Feminist Motherhood:
Outlaw Mothers in Music, Media, Arts and Cultural Expression
May 16, 2008 in New York City
We have two papers, seeking a third.
In exploring change and continuity in women's communities, it is essential
to explore and interrogate the world of the internet. The emerging
scholarship thus far has privileged blogs over online communities. Our
papers deal with groups of women in various phases of motherhood on the
internet. One paper explores the use of the internet by expectant mothers
by following a group of women on the public website babycenter.com. The
second paper suggests a new way to understand motherhood culture, one that
recognizes the strong role of the internet in certain women's everyday lives
while concurrently recognizing the role of friendship in the experience of
motherhood. I will introduce one small, private, group of online friends and
mothers and discuss how, for this group, motherhood is a lived experience
not only in real-life interactions between mothers and their children, but
also, intriguingly, between online friends.
We are seeking a third paper that explores other uses of internet
communities by mothers.
Interested panelists should contact mmoravec@rosemont.edu by February 1.
The CFP deadline is 2/15.
Michelle Moravec, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
Rosemont College
Sarah Leavitt, Ph.D.
Project Director, House and Home
National Building Museum
For more information about the conference, see
http://www.yorku.ca/arm/PerformingFeministMotherhood.html
Michelle Moravec, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
Rosemont College
1400 Montgomery Avenue
Rosemont, PA 19010
mmoravec@rosemont.edu
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