Infertility and Intimacy in an Online Community

• Main Authors: Billett, Paulina (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Sawyer, Anne-Maree (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• Subjects: Social groups.; Family.; Sociology.; Digital media.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.; Gender Studies.; Digital/New Media.

This book explores an online support group for women who are infertile. Offering a close-up view of the women's identities and emotions as they navigate the "roller-coaster" world of infertility, a range of questions are addressed: How do the women seek support? How do they offer supp...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Changing Face of Society: Intimacy and Support in the Online World
• 3. Finding support in the online world
• 4. A glance in the mirror: women's reflections on their emotions, bodies and selves
• 5. Relationships in a fertile world: negotiating alliances and the "pregnant other"
• 6. Partnering the infertile: the impact of infertility on women's spousal relationships
• 7. Looking back, moving forward.