ISBN:
0773539808
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0773539794
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9780773539808
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9780773539792
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 421 S.
DDC:
306.874/3
Keywords:
Motherhood in popular culture
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Motherhood Social aspects
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Mutterschaft
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Populärkultur
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Mutter
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Massenkultur
Abstract:
Women's studies, cultural studies
Abstract:
In recent decades, popular culture - from television and film to newspapers, magazines, and best-selling fiction - has focused an enormous amount of attention on mothers. Mediating Moms looks at the ways in which mothers are portrayed, idealized, and criticized by the media as well as how mothers negotiate these images and how critics and scholars strengthen and alleviate the tensions between representation and reality. Contributors from Canada, the United States, Britain, and Australia examine a variety of topics such as teen and post-menopausal pregnancies, lesbian parenting, adoption, breast-feeding, and post-partum depression
Abstract:
Engaging critically with stereotypes perpetuated by popular culture, Mediating Moms maps some of the provocative and liberating ways mothers can use the media to transform and reaffirm their identities
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: Popular culture's maternal embrace
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Mommy nearest: TV for preschoolers and the search for the good enough (working) mother
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"Won't somebody think of the children?": The nineties subversion of the animated mother
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Real(ity) TV practices of surveillance: evaluating mothers in Supernanny and Crash test mommy
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"The bump is back": celebrity moms, entertainment journalism, and the "media mother police"
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Are you a politician or a mother?
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Motherhood, murder, and the media: Joanne Hayes and the Kerry babies case
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"Shit and string beans," boredom and babies: bad mothers in popular women's fiction since 1968
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Mothering across generations: L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables at 100
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"You have to take it and own it": Yo' Mama magazine as a space of refusal for teenage mothers
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Mediating risky motherhood: a discursive analysis of offline and online responses to the oldest British mother-to-be
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And now, the breast of the story: realistic portrayals of breastfeeding in contemporary television
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Watch them suffer, watch them die: depictions of African mothers and motherhood in famine footage and in Fernando Meirelles's The constant gardener
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The reality of TV labour: Birth stories
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Mothering in the middle and self-care: just one more thing to do
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S/Kin of virtual mothers: loss and mourning on a Korean birthmothers' website
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Fostering the passive maternal experience: language and prescription in the What to expect series of maternity literature
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Motherhood, prime-time TV, and Grey's anatomy
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Tom vs. Brooke: or postpartum depression as bad mothering in popular culture
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Other mothers: looking at maternal desire in The l word
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Coming to terms: ethics, motherhood, and the cultural science fiction of the gene
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