Berättelser om brist. Bloggar om ofrivillig barnlöshet
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2015
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LIR. journal
Abstract
This article studies diary weblogs about involuntary childlessness,
focusing on Swedish contemporary weblogs written by
heterosexual women. The article suggests that the inability to
procreate can be seen as an interruption in the western expectation
of a predictable life course, and explores how the weblog
authors deal with this interruption. The diary weblog is discussed
as a genre and as a form of life writing and pathography,
and different types of writing within the weblogs are discerned.
The article discusses the blogging diarists’ construction of a
new progression in the interruption, through their attempts to
become pregnant, and how they deal with contemporary Nordic
norms equating childbearing with things like happiness and
life meaning, by striving to live up to the norms and at the
same time questioning them.
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Katarina Bernhardsson is PhD in Comparative Literature.
She is active at Lund University, working with within the fields
of Medical Humanities, as well as on a project on the history of
the university.
Keywords
Life writing, weblogs, diary, pathography, involuntary childlessness, infertility, IVF