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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463933903321

Titolo

Motherhood online [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Michelle Moravec

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011

ISBN

1-283-19311-6

1-4438-3139-5

9786613193117

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MoravecMichelle

Disciplina

306.8743029

Soggetti

Blogs

Child rearing - Social aspects

Electronic discussion groups

Internet and women

Motherhood - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; FOREWORD; THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CASE STUDIES; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; BLOGS AND COMMUNITY; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

It may take a village to raise a child, but increasingly that means a virtual village. While the media may focus on the so-called "mommy wars" and babyrazzi follow every move of celebrity moms, millions of mothers world-wide are creating online communities. These mommy groups provide an alternative context for understanding how women construct modern motherhood together. Motherhood Online explores the mutifaceted lives that mom live online. Ranging from longitudinal studies, to focused explor...



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790853803321

Autore

Smither Elizabeth <1941->

Titolo

The blue coat / / Elizabeth Smither

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-86940-776-8

1-77558-632-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (81 p.)

Disciplina

NZ821.2

Soggetti

New Zealand poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; Black Labradors; Leaf flurry tram; Blossoms, marshmallows; The chipped Limoges plate; When to visit a cemetery; Governess sky; St Frances of Rome, patroness of car drivers; How to release a bee; The eye is badly designed; Restaurant, stars; The nurses are coming; The young women at the station; Babies in the gallery; The wedding tree; The underside of the miniature plane tree; Old lemon tree; Rose thirds; Tazetta daffodils in midwinter; Grass; High wind in the garden; Fountain; Calf weeding; Practising scales; How music is made; Stained-glass window seen from the rear

Two adorable things about MozartVirginia: gardening with transistor; The wedding lawn; Tonia looks at her hands; Amy brings the thesaurus; Intensive reading with Diana; All Saints' and the day of an operation; Last sister; Dying; Credo; Last week of a life; Merci d'exister: a French lesson; Tony Hoagland farewells the poets; Lipstick stain on a poem; Reading Maxine Kumin; The marking of The Great Gatsby; Meeting with two fans; Plaits; The blue coat; Engageantes = detachable sleeves; The bra fitting; Dressing in Nelson Street, King's Lynn; Cole dresses his mother; The birth dressing gown

Sa taille svelte de jeune filleFatherhood; Ruby's heirloom dress; Birthmark; The distraction from harm; For Ruby; Dickens and my father; Driving with my mother; My mother's fingernails; Gargoyles; Signing the will; Blessing the house for departure

Sommario/riassunto

In The Blue Coat, Elizabeth Smither examines the quotidian and the



quirky for resonance, for contemplation, for verve. Here ?poetry has a place among other bodies', but also in enclosed gardens, in Chinese restaurants, in margins and in memory ? ?sometimes open and hospitable, sometimes secret, behind dark hedges'. Whimsical and tender, this latest collection demonstrates Smither's talent for illuminating the poetry in the everyday ? an out-of-season daffodil, a chipped Limoges plate. She is a master of the unfolding poem, in lines that take you from a single image to the cusp of somethin