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• In Media Res
  Re: The Inevitability of Optimism

  Thanks for your post, Dee,

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  University of Canterbury

  Wednesday, September 4, 2019 — 7:49 am

  Thanks for your post, Dee, and for sharing your own film on here. I enjoyed watching the episodes available on YouTube and would like to see the end (or lack of ending...!). I hope you plan to upload the rest of it soon:-) I agree with your comments here ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Double or Nothing: Infertility in Jane the Virgin

  Safety in comedy

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  University of Canterbury

  Thursday, September 5, 2019 — 12:58 am

  Thanks for your post on this show, Stefanie. I think it's engagement with motherhood in general is really interesting.  Your point about media enaging with infertility via humour is important, I think. Indeed, the comedy works to neutralize or make s ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Infertility as failure: Egg freezing advertisements and the myth of 'having it all'

  Femininity = maternity?

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  University of Canterbury

  Thursday, September 5, 2019 — 1:09 am

  Thanks for your comment, Dee. Your point about women as "carriers" is a good one and certainly reflects our childcentric culture where the foetus increasingly takes centre stage. The invisibility of the mother is indeed worrying, and the ethics ...
• In Media Res
  Re: The Inevitability of Optimism

  "And once you have that baby

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  University of Canterbury

  Thursday, September 5, 2019 — 1:04 am

  "And once you have that baby your story is over. Now you're a mother and you don't get a story of your own anymore. You are a supporting character."  Yes, indeed! Sexuality seems to be one of the areas where this is particularly rife. ...
• In Media Res
  Re: The (Social) Mediated Myth of Childbirth

  A couple of resources

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  University of Canterbury

  Tuesday, May 7, 2019 — 11:44 pm

  Thanks for starting this conversation. I agree that the publicizing of multiple and alternative narratives and experiences is important. Interesting how, as Shelley points out, these particular narratives and representations were most likely subversive wh ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Lampooning Failure in the ‘Mom-com’ Genre

  Thanks for the book

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  University of Canterbury

  Wednesday, May 8, 2019 — 7:43 am

  Thanks for the book recommendation, Shelley- I've added it to my library list. It's an interesting provocation you make, especially when considering how central failure seems to be to constructs of motherhood in general anyway, and this is certa ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Pump & Dump the Patriarchy: How Media Influences Motherhood

  Sexy or sexual?

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  University of Canterbury

  Thursday, May 9, 2019 — 11:43 pm

  Thanks for starting this discussion around the McAdams photo, Corrie- it's such an interesting and (I think) complex text. I absolutely agree with the comments made re its role in presenting a homogenzied and glamorized version of motherhood as white ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Lampooning Failure in the ‘Mom-com’ Genre

  #PerfectlyImperfect

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  University of Canterbury

  Thursday, May 9, 2019 — 11:51 pm

  I suspect this isn't what you meant, Shelley, when thinking about "practices of failure"! https://www.thecut.com/2019/04/online-moms-mommyblogs-instagram.html Another good eg, I think, of how a practice that may have been subversive in its ...