that Fiske reading again...

It has been playing around in my head and here is another thought, a thought more closely related to my essay 1 topic...

I might change the direction altogether and try to relate the concepts Fiske uses to the way women form a 'new' everyday life when expecting a child, particularly, their first child. I think this time in a woman's life (and to an extent her partner) is a rare time where one's 'normal' patterns of everyday life are shifting. The idea of 'expecting' a child, leads me to the concept of 'expecting' your everyday life to no longer hold the patterns of your previous life. The period of pregnancy is spent 'furnishing' for a life you do not lead yet. 9 months creating a new 'habitus' as a parent, a mother.
'the weaving of one's own richly textured life within the constraints of economic depravation and oppression, are not just ways of controlling some of the conditions of social existence; they are also ways of constructing, and therefore exerting some control over, social identities and social relations.' (Fiske, 1992) To an extent, a mother to be, regardless of economic status, creates an idea, creates the outlines of the life they want for their child, and that they want to lead as a parent. They are using what control they have over the life they have and the life their child will have, thus creating the basis of an identity, of an everyday life to be.
Maybe? I know, not related to the online world at all!!

cheers
Sarah

Fiske, J. (1992). Cultural Studies and the Culture of Everyday Life Cultural Studies (pp. 154-173). New York: Routledge