ISBN:
0739177087
,
9780739177082
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 245 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers
DDC:
306.874/3
Keywords:
Wives
;
Mothers
;
Women in mass media
;
Brides
;
Sex role in mass media
;
Sex role in mass media
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers, edited by Alena Amato Ruggerio, explores how television, film, the internet, and other media variously perpetuate gender stereotypes. The contributors to this volume bring a variety of feminist rhetorical and media criticism approaches from across the communication discipline to their analyses of how media shape our expectations of the performance of women's domestic roles
Description / Table of Contents:
Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Television; 1 Domesticating Matrimonial Monstrosity: Bridezillas and Narratives of Feminine Containment; 2 The Reality of Televised Motherhood: The Personal Quest and Feminine Test of Kate Gosselin; 3 Marriage, Friendship, and Scandal: Constructing a Typology of Media Representation of Women in Desperate Housewives; 4 Ancient Archetypes in Modern Media; 5 Christian Patriarchy Lite: TLC's 19 Kids and Counting; Part II Film
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Punishing Unfaithful Wives and Working Mothers: Messages of Postfeminism in Contemporary Film7 Love and Lack: Media, Witches, and Normative Gender Roles; 8 Head Above Water: Applying Nussbaum's "Capabilities Approach" to Deepa Mehta's 2005 Film; Part III News Coverage; 9 Feminine Style and Militant Motherhood in Antiwar Discourse: Cindy Sheehan as Grieving Mother and/or Left-Leaning Radical; 10 Grisly Mama: Carnivorous Media Coverage of Sarah Palin; 11 "Stand by Your Man" Revisited: Political Wives and Scandal
Description / Table of Contents:
12 "Taking Care of the Children and the Country": Nancy Pelosi and the Trope of Motherhood in Partisan and Mainstream Media13 Local Media Madness: How One City's Media Helped Perpetuate the Myth of the "Perfect" Coach's Wife; 14 Who's Framing Whom? Michele Bachmann and the (Primary) Politics of Motherhood; Part IV Internet; 15 Momtinis, Not Martyrs: Examining 'Anti-Mom' Blogs, Muted Groups, Standpoints, and the Struggle over Motherhood; 16 Love Thy Mother? Traitorous Constructions of Motherhood in "Outsmart Mother Nature with Tampax" Campaign
Description / Table of Contents:
17 Taking the Audience Perspective: Online Fan Commentary about the Brides of Mad Men and Their WeddingsIndex; Contributors; About the Editor
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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