Maternal Narratives in Public Contexts
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Maternal Narratives in Public Contexts

Shaping Perspectives and Enacting Identities

  1. 275 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Maternal Narratives in Public Contexts

Shaping Perspectives and Enacting Identities

About this book

Maternal Narratives in Public Contexts: Shaping Perspectives and Enacting Identities brings together critical research on the construction and enactment of mothering and motherhood in public spheres. The book is divided into two parts – in the first part, authors examine how prevailing ideals of motherhood influence twenty-first century culture by exploring iterations of maternal identity in various media forms, from Dr. Spock's self-help guide to film and small-screen entertainment. In the second part, the authors investigate how tropes of motherhood manifest and operate in academia, the workplace, and in political spheres. Ultimately, this book explores how maternal identities are both formed and articulated in public discourse, arguing that rhetorical influences inform the ways in which we define, recognize, and enact maternal identities and the sociocultural ramifications that result within communication contexts. Scholars of communication, media studies, film and television studies, cultural studies, rhetoric, and women's and gender studies will find this book of particular interest.

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Yes, you can access Maternal Narratives in Public Contexts by Catherine A. Dobris,Rachel Davidson,Kim White-Mills in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Communication Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781978795310
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Communication Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Is It Always about the Mother?
  9. Part I: Shaping Maternal Roles
  10. Chapter 1: The Spockian Mother: Images of the “Good” Mother in Dr. Spock’s The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, 1946–9921
  11. Chapter 2: What Makes a “Bad” Mom “Bad”?: Lucas and Moore’s Bad Moms (2016) and A Bad Moms1 Christmas (2017)2
  12. Chapter 3: Juxtaposing Incongruities and Undermining Feminist Alternatives: Exploiting a Maternal Persona in Netflix’s, I Care A Lot (2020)
  13. Chapter 4: Film as Invitational Rhetoric: Transcending Motherhood Narratives through Community in 20th Century Women
  14. Chapter 5: Animating the Nuances of the “Bad Mother”: Rhetorical Strategies of Resistance in BoJack Horseman
  15. Part II: Enacting Maternal Identities
  16. Chapter 6: Social Media and Motherhood: “Karen” as the New Bad Mother
  17. Chapter 7: A Rhetoric of Domestic Responsibility: Uncovering Patriarchal Motherhood in Unpaid Caregiving Advocacy Rhetoric
  18. Chapter 8: Faculty as Caregivers and Mother-Substitutes: Exploring Female Faculty Members’ Perceptions of Mothering Behaviors in the Classroom
  19. Chapter 9: Negotiating Identity: Mothers’ Adoption of Organizational Identities
  20. Chapter 10: The Rhetoric of Wives and Mothers on the Highest Court in the Land: Narrative Probability and Fidelity in Women’s Supreme Court Nominees’ Opening Statements
  21. Chapter 11: Republican Motherhood in Public Health Campaigns: A Rhetorical Analysis of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Program
  22. Chapter 12: The Mother in All of Us: How Michelle Obama, Jill Biden, and Kamala Harris Rhetorically Engage the Motherhood Narrative
  23. Conclusion
  24. Index
  25. About the Contributors