Infertility and Intimacy in an Online Community

Paulina Billett, Anne-Maree Sawyer (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

215 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2019
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-44980-1 (ISBN)

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This book explores an online support group for women who are infertile. Offering a close-up view of the women’s identities and emotions as they navigate the “roller-coaster” world of infertility, a range of questions are addressed: How do the women seek support? How do they offer support to one another? How are intimacies produced in the online space? Through narrative analysis of online journals and posts, the authors examine the impact of infertility on women’s perceptions of their bodies, their struggles with medical professionals, on their relationships with family and friends, and the challenges that a diagnosis of infertility presents to couples.

Infertility and Intimacy in an Online Community will appeal to social scientists, students from a range of health science disciplines, counsellors and health professionals, and women and men who are dealing with infertility.

Paulina Billett is Lecturer in Sociology at La Trobe University, Australia. Her current research centres on the experiences of women and explores issues of identity formation and lived experience. Anne-Maree Sawyer is Lecturer in Sociology at La Trobe University, Australia. Her current research focuses on mental health policy and practice, emotion management and the micro-politics of care, and women’s narratives in retirement.

1. Introduction.- 2. The Changing Face of Society: Intimacy and Support in the Online World.- 3. Finding support in the online world .- 4. A glance in the mirror: women’s reflections on their emotions, bodies and selves.- 5. Relationships in a fertile world: negotiating alliances and the “pregnant other”.- 6. Partnering the infertile: the impact of infertility on women’s spousal relationships.- 7. Looking back, moving forward.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.10.2018
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 215 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
Schlagworte	Family • Forums • Internet • Parents • Personal life • Reproductive Technologies • Sociology • Support networks
ISBN-10	1-137-44980-2 / 1137449802
ISBN-13	978-1-137-44980-1 / 9781137449801
Zustand	Neuware