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 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
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. 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
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. 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. 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
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
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
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.
