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Motherhood, performance, and mommy blogs: the political power of maternal online rhetoric

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dc.contributor.authorDiPrince, Dawn, author
dc.contributor.authorSouder, Donna, advisor
dc.contributor.authorEskew, Doug, committee member
dc.contributor.authorArnegard, Iver, committee member
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T08:03:02Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T08:03:02Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstract"If you define writing as any kind of scribble, any kind of trying to mark on the world," Gloria AnzaldĂșa says in an interview with Andrea Lundsford, "And, some of us want to take those marks that are already inscribed in the world and redo them." Language - and thus, writing - has the power to transform, to redefine reality. Autobiographical writing is a performative act that forms - not reflects - identity. Mommy blogs are autobiographical acts with dual performativity: identity and maternity. With performativity, mommy blogs have the power to, as AnzaldĂșa writes, "rewrite culture." Yet, collectively, mommy blogs reify the normative motherhood narrative with gritty and sometimes profane clicktivist delusions, rather than actively work against the systemic issues that limit the lives of mothers: lack of quality child care; breastfeeding discrimination; unpaid maternity leave; wage disparity for women, working mothers and women of color. Mommy blogs emphasize a narrative of voluntary stay-at-home motherhood (SAHM). The SAHM narrative is essential to capitalism, which only thrives when a certain percentage of adults are removed from the workforce. Mommy blogs use narrative to keep women content while they are being forced out of the workforce through lower wages and lack of child care choices.
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dc.identifierDiPrince_colostate_0053N_11075.pdf
dc.identifierETDF2012500030ENGL
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/65304
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartof2000-2019
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dc.subjectmemoir
dc.subjectblogging
dc.subjectmaternal rhetoric
dc.subjectmommy blogs
dc.subjectmotherhood
dc.subjectperformativity
dc.titleMotherhood, performance, and mommy blogs: the political power of maternal online rhetoric
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thesis.degree.disciplineEnglish
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)

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