ISBN:
9783030713119
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (258 pages)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.856
Keywords:
Single parents
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Single parents in mass media
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Introduction -- Single Mothers -- Single Fathers -- Solo Mothers Through Assisted Reproductive Technologies -- Concluding Discussion -- References -- Part I Single Mothers -- 2 Representation of Single Mothers in Petra Soukupová's Contemporary Czech Prose: Guilty Mothers and Uninvolved Fathers -- Introduction -- The Position of Single Parents -- Normative Climate and Literature -- The Case of Petra Soukupová's Literary Fiction -- Guilty Single Mothers -- Self or Mother -- Uninvolved and Absent Fathers -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Young Single Motherhood in Contemporary German and Irish Films: Lucy, Jelly Baby and Heartbreak -- Introduction -- Comparing Contemporary German and Irish Films -- Film Selection and Introduction -- Young Motherhood: Social Isolation and Autonomy Restrictions -- Social Isolation: Lucy and Jelly Baby -- Restrictions on Autonomy by the Irish State: Heartbreak -- The Expectation of Failure -- Scrutiny by Public Institutions: Jelly Baby -- Anticipated Audience Expectations: Lucy -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Unwed and Unwanted: Sofia and the Taboo of Single Motherhood in Morocco -- Introduction: Single Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century -- Mothering Alone in Morocco -- Film Analysis -- Conclusion: Survival Strategies and Ambivalent Feminism -- References -- 5 Advice Books for Single Mothers Raising Sons: Biology, Culture and Guilt -- Introduction -- The Material -- The Boy Crisis -- Boys' Biological Disadvantages -- The Vulnerable Boy and the Single Mother -- Saving the Boy -- Not Spoiling Him -- Teaching Masculinity -- Teaching Toxic Masculinity -- Reader Address -- Single Mothers -- Fathers -- What Is a Father Good for? -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Single Fathers.
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