Blogging the Maternal: Self-Representations of the Pregnant and Postpartum Body

Abstract

This paper analyzes how dominant media images of the pregnant and postpartum body contribute to women's self-perceptions and it evaluates how the content of the blog reflects, reinforces (inadvertently) and challenges Western cultural understandings of pregnancy and mothering.

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