Mediated Moms
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Mediated Moms

Contemporary Challenges to the Motherhood Myth

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Mediated Moms

Contemporary Challenges to the Motherhood Myth

About this book

Images of «good mothers» saturate the media, yet so too do images of mothers who do not fit this mold. Numerous scholars have addressed «bad mothers» in the media, arguing that these images are a necessary counterpoint that serves to buttress the «good mother» myth. While mediated images of women who fail to enact good motherhood may promote good mothering as an ideal, the essays in Mediated Moms: Contemporary Challenges to the Motherhood Myth, suggest that this is not all that is occurring in contemporary portrayals of maternity. The authors in this volume explore how images of mothers have expanded beyond the good/bad dichotomy, simultaneously and sometimes paradoxically serving to reinforce, fracture, and/or transcend the ideology of good motherhood.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. 1. Introduction: Challenging the Motherhood Myth (Sara E. Hayden & Heather L. Hundley)
  5. 2. Counter-Intensive Mothering: Exploring Transgressive Portrayals and Transcendence on Mad Men (Suzy D’enbeau & Patrice M. Buzzanell)
  6. 3. Motherhood and Mental Health: Carrie Mathison’s Homeland Pregnancy (Elizabeth Fish Hatfield)
  7. 4. Addicted to Danger: The Fierce, Flawed Mothers of Nurse Jackie and Weeds (Katherine J. Lehman)
  8. 5. Maternal Transgressions, Racial Regressions: How Whiteness Mediates the (Worst) White Moms (Susana MartĂ­nez Guillem & Lisa A. Flores)
  9. 6. 16 and Pregnant and Black: Challenging and Debunking Stereotypes (Natasha Howard)
  10. 7. “It Is What It Is”: Here Comes Honey Boo Boo’s “Mama” June Shannon as Unruly Mother (Sharon R. Mazzarella)
  11. 8. “Save Your Tears for Your Pillow”: Tough Love and the Mothering Double Bind in Dance Moms (Stephanie L. Gomez)
  12. 9. “I Forgot How It Was to Be Normal”: Decompensating the Binary of Good/Bad Motherhood (Beth L. Boser)
  13. 10. A Tale of Morality, Class, and Transnational Mothering: Broadening and Constraining Motherhood in Mammoth (Rachel D. Davidson & Lara C. Stache)
  14. 11. Mommy Blogs and the Disruptive Possibilities of Transgressive Drinking (Tasha N. Dubriwny)
  15. 12. “Devil Mamas” of Social Media: Resistant Maternal Discourses in Sanctimommy (Valerie Palmer-Mehta & Sherianne Shuler)
  16. 13. When Tiger Mothers Transgress: Amy Chua, Dara-Lynn Weiss and the Cultural Imperative of Intensive Mothering (Linda Steiner & Carolyn Bronstein)
  17. Contributor Biographies
  18. Index