Bikini-Ready Moms
eBook - ePub

Bikini-Ready Moms

Celebrity Profiles, Motherhood, and the Body

  1. 275 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Bikini-Ready Moms

Celebrity Profiles, Motherhood, and the Body

About this book

Winner of the 2016 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG) The requirements of "good" motherhood used to primarily involve the care of children, but now contemporary mothers are also pressured to become bikini-ready immediately postpartum. Lynn O'Brien Hallstein analyzes celebrity mom profiles to determine the various ways that they encourage all mothers to engage in body work as the energizing solution to solve any work-life balance struggles they might experience. Bikini-Ready Moms also considers the ways that maternal body work erases any evidence of mothers' contributions both at home and in professional contexts. O'Brien Hallstein theorizes possible ways to fuel a necessary mothers' revolution, while also pointing to initial strategies of resistance.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: New and Changing Celebrity Mom Profiles: Theoretical Grounding and Interdisciplinary Rhetorical Approach and Method
  7. 1. Contemporary Motherhood at the Epicenter of Intersecting Cultural Changes: The Neoliberal and Post-Second Wave Turns
  8. 2. Step One—Becoming First-Time Mothers: Slender-Pregnant Celebrity Mom Profiles
  9. 3. Step Two—Being Bikini-Ready Moms: Postpartum Celebrity Mom Profiles
  10. 4. Consequences, Rules, and Conclusions about Bikini-Ready Moms
  11. 5. Resisting Being Bikini-Ready Moms: Five Strategies of Resistance
  12. Notes
  13. Works Cited
  14. Index
  15. Back Cover