In Defense of the Unmother: Rhetoric, Motherhood, and Social Networking

Authors

  • Rebecca Ingalls Drexel University

Keywords:

rhetoric, social networking, online media, fertility, feminist, motherhood

Abstract

Wanted: kind, nurturing, compassionate females. Childless women need not apply.

Author Biography

Rebecca Ingalls, Drexel University

Rebecca Ingalls is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at Drexel University, where she specializes in composition and rhetoric. Her work may be found in The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies; Academe; inventio; The Journal of Teaching Writing, POROI, and The Journal of Popular Culture (forthcoming).

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Published

2011-04-07

Issue

No. 6 (2011): Family Rhetoric

Section

Family and Media Critique

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