Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. Most respondents in my study made a scrapbook as a gift at some point. Some made several while others no longer make gift scrapbooks. I heard horror stories about what gift … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. Most respondents in my study report support for their hobby to varying degrees from their family. In fact, other family members are more supportive than non-family. Husbands may roll their eyes … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. Doing parenthood is something that child-free scrapbookers do, too. Child-free scrapbookers report that they include the personal context in their scrapbooks so that years from now when their children or grandchildren … Continue reading
Each Saturday, I provide a compilation of links from the week’s posts. Because I’ve cut back on posting, this Saturday includes all of my posts from March. This Month: A Letter to My Readers Why do Moms Scrapbook? Why Scrapbook … Continue reading
Here’s another post from my dissertation. If mothers do motherhood through scrapbooking, do fathers also do fatherhood by their very absence from scrapbooking? What I find is that fathers support their scrapbooking wives in a variety of ways. Fathers do … Continue reading
Here’s another post from my dissertation. I was pregnant for the first and only time while conducting my interviews for my dissertation. Scratch that. I was visibly pregnant while conducting my interviews. I was not (and still am not) an … Continue reading
Every other Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. There are contradictory messages among scrapbookers and scrapbook industry workers. Today, I will address two of these messages. The first message is that scrapbooks are created for the family. Care … Continue reading
Here’s another post from my dissertation. It should surprise no one that pregnant women and new moms (and not-so-new moms) take up scrapbooking in larger numbers than child-free women or dads. The question is why. Why do moms scrapbook? It … Continue reading
Every other Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. Scrapbooks are about current family relationships, past family relationships, and new family relationships. In the case of weddings and births, a page or an album about the wedding or birth … Continue reading
Every other Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. Doing family via scrapbooks is not just documenting that a familial relationship exists, but capturing the essence of that relationship in the scrapbook. Sometimes the relationship is not just about … Continue reading
Stephanie Medley-Rath is a sociologist and scrapbooker who studies scrapbooking and memory keeping. Scrapworthy Lives is a blog focused on her sociological analysis of scrapbooking, with a sprinkling of posts about Stephanie's own scrapbooking projects.
