Titlebook: Infertility and Intimacy in an Online Community; Paulina Billett,Anne-Maree Sawyer Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(

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,A Glance in the Mirror: Women’s Reflections on Their Emotions, Bodies and Selves,dical treatments in an effort to achieve a “BFP” (Big Fat Positive). We focus here on their discursive practices—the particular language of selfhood and the frameworks of meaning the women used to make sense of, and deal with, situations that were often unpredictable and intensely distressing. As no

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,Relationships in a Fertile World: Negotiating Alliances and the “Pregnant Other”,we focus on how these experiences affected their interactions with family, friends and work colleagues. (The women’s accounts of their relationships with their spouses are explored in Chap. ..) The Stronger Together site offered the women a secure place to “vent” about their interactions with signif

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The Changing Face of Society: Intimacy and Support in the Online World,ty and online support. By approaching the Stronger Together OSG as a very particular narrative environment, we aim to show throughout this book how broader cultural narratives of self, infertility and motherhood are inscribed in participants’ online exchanges.

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Looking Back, Moving Forward, their infertility journey as a nightmare and motherhood as an awakening from it. While the new journey of motherhood was seen as tough, a number of women felt that the road to motherhood could mean they would be more dedicated as mothers, and that they had reached a new level of empathy for those undergoing life struggles.