Mommy Angst
eBook - PDF

Mommy Angst

Motherhood in American Popular Culture

  1. 252 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Mommy Angst

Motherhood in American Popular Culture

About this book

This revealing work looks at representations of motherhood from a wide range of pop culture sources to explore larger questions about the image and self-image of mothers in the United States. How has the popularity of Gilmore Girls influenced perspectives on teenage pregnancies? How did the mother-in-law assume such monstrous proportions? Did the Republicans' view of motherhood—and their continual hectoring of Hillary Clinton for putting ambition ahead of family—cost them the 2008 election? Mommy Angst: Motherhood in American Popular Culture considers questions like these as it probes our country's views on mothers, and how those views shape—and are shaped by—the habitually oversimplified portrayals of mothers in pop culture, politics, and the media. Mommy Angst gets at the heart of America's anxious ambivalence toward mothers—whether sanctifying them, vilifying them, or praising the ideal of motherhood while thoroughly undervaluing the complexities of their lives and their contributions to family and society. To highlight the many sides of motherhood, the collection contrasts the lives of a diverse range of real moms with their pop culture representations, including Jewish mothers, Cuban mothers, teenage mothers, mothers with disabilities, working versus stay-at-home moms, and more.

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Yes, you can access Mommy Angst by Ann C. Hall, Mardia J. Bishop, Ann C. Hall,Mardia J. Bishop in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Sociology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780313375309
eBook ISBN
9780313375316
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. 1. Media Morality Tales and the Politics of Motherhood Katherine N. Kinnick
  4. 2. The Motherless ‘‘Disney Princess’’: Marketing Mothers out of the Picture Marjorie Worthington
  5. 3. Motherhood, Memory, and Mambo: The Case of the Missing Cuban American Mother in Contemporary American Popular Culture Manuel MartĹ´nez
  6. 4. Of Mamothers and Behemothers-in-Law: Toward a Twenty-First-Century Bestiary Craig N. Owens
  7. 5. Killer Instincts: Motherhood and Violence in The Long Kiss Goodnight and Kill Bill Angela Dancey
  8. 6. Hip Mamas: Gilmore Girls and Ariel Gore Robin Silbergleid
  9. 7. Running the Home, House, and Senate: Political Moms Pelosi, Clinton, and Palin Ann C. Hall
  10. 8. The Mommy Lift: Cutting Mothers Down to Size Mardia J. Bishop
  11. 9. The Bioethics of Designing ‘‘Disabled’’ Babies Alina Bennett
  12. 10. ‘‘Real’’ Motherhood: Changing Perceptions of Adoption in American History Kathleen L. Riley
  13. 11. Moms.Com Dennis Hall
  14. 12. Jewish Mothers: Types, Stereotypes, and Countertypes Jessica Prinz
  15. About the Editors and Contributors
  16. Index