Every other Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. In the case of heritage albums, the scrapbooker is explicitly doing family, making decisions about who is family and who is not by who gets included and who gets excluded … Continue reading
Every other Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. In addition to doing family in terms of building family habitus, scrapbooks serve as a means of communication for a family. For scrapbookers with family they see infrequently, the scrapbook … Continue reading
So in October, I temporarily stopped by posts on my dissertation. No, I don’t have my scholarly publications submitted or completed, but since then the American Sociological Association, the professional organization for sociologists, has come out in support of people … Continue reading
Every Wednesday (at least most Wednesdays) for the last year, I have posted a tiny chunk of writing from my dissertation. My original intent for sharing my dissertation on this site (and creating this site in the first place) was … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. My respondents made scrapbooking fit in their lives. For the most part, they did not scrapbook because they felt obligated to scrapbook as mothers, wives, or as female members of their … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. Last week, I questioned wither scrapbooking is a woman’s-only space? Do men feel welcomed in the hobby? Not only do critics like me notice the absence of men in the hobby, … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. There are aspects of the scrapbooking industry that really only work as long as the hobby remains the domain of women, and men remain marginalized. For example, scrapbook retreats involve communal … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. The scrapbook industry is built around women doing gender through either owning scrapbook stores (Downs 2006) or selling scrapbook products inside people’s homes to friends and family as independent consultants. All … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. Last week, I kicked off my discussion on gender and scrapbooking, specifically, a concept called “doing gender.” According to West and Zimmerman (2002:4), doing gender,” “involves a complex of socially guided … Continue reading
One way that sociologists understand gender is that gender is something one does. In other words, we do things to indicate our gender (e.g., clothing selection or our interests)–a bit of an oversimplification, but I think you get the idea. … 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.
