Reinscribing a New Normal: Pregnancy, Disability, and Health 2.0 in the Online Natural Birthing Community, Birth Without Fear
| dc.contributor.author | De Hertogh, Lori Beth | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-21T01:01:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-06-21T01:01:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-04 | |
| dc.description | 22 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | I argue in this article that the online natural birthing community, Birth Without Fear, operates as a Health 2.0 space where members reinscribe a new normal regarding disability and pregnancy, a process that both empowers and disempowers women. To explore this issue, I draw on concepts and terminologies from cyberfeminist and feminist disability studies. In using these methodologies, I bring attention to how pregnant bodies are perceived as medically disabled and highlight how Birth Without Fear both positively and negatively shapes rhetorics of pregnancy on the web | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | University of Oregon Libraries | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | De Hertogh, L. B., (2015) Reinscribing a New Normal: Pregnancy, Disability, and Health 2.0 in the Online Natural Birthing Community, Birth Without Fear. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, No.7. doi:10.7264/N3Z899PH (http://dx.doi.org/10.7264/N3Z899PH) | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2325-0496 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/26360 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Fembot Collective | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.title | Reinscribing a New Normal: Pregnancy, Disability, and Health 2.0 in the Online Natural Birthing Community, Birth Without Fear | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |