Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers

Herausgeber: Ruggerio, Alena Amato

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Produktbeschreibung

Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers, edited by Alena Amato Ruggerio, explores how television, film, the internet, and other media variously perpetuate gender stereotypes. The contributors to this volume bring a variety of feminist rhetorical and media criticism approaches from across the communication discipline to their analyses of how television, film, news coverage, and the Internet shape our expectations of the performance of women's identities. This collection includes studies of Bridezillas, Jon & Kate Plus 8, Sex and the City, Sarah Palin, Nancy Pelosi, The Devil Wears Prada, Practical Magic, "momtini" blogs, and Mad Men fan websites. Readers will learn to apply the insights from each chapter to their own sets of myths, stereotypes, and assumptions about gendered roles, and to recognize the possibilities for both liberation and domination when women's practices of marrying, mating, and mothering are represented and misrepresented in the media. This collection is an essential contribution to media studies and criticism of gender stereotypes in contemporary culture. Read the author's recent interview with Literary Ashland. You can also visit the author's website here.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9780739193044
• ISBN-10: 073919304X
• Artikelnr.: 40334560

Autorenporträt

Alena Amato Ruggerio is associate professor of communication at Southern Oregon University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. Television Chapter 1. Domesticating Matrimonial Monstrosity:
Bridezillas and Narratives of Feminine Containment by Alyssa Ann Samek
Chapter 2. The Reality of Televised Motherhood: The Personal Quest and
Feminine Test of Kate Gosselin by Mary Frances Casper and Deneen Gilmour
Chapter 3. Marriage, Friendship, and Scandal: Constructing a Typology of
Media Representation of Women in Desperate Housewives by Paula Hopeck and
Rebecca K. Ivic Chapter 4. Ancient Archetypes in Modern Media by Deborah A.
Macey Chapter 5. Christian Patriarchy Lite: TLC's 19 Kids and Counting by
Christy Ellen Mesaros-Winckles Part 2. Film Chapter 6. Punishing Unfaithful
Wives and Working Mothers: Messages of Postfeminism in Contemporary Film by
Erika M. Thomas Chapter 7. Love and Lack: Media, Witches, and Normative
Gender Roles by Victoria L. Godwin Chapter 8. Head Above Water: Applying
Nussbaum's "Capabilities Approach" to Deepa Mehta's 2005 Film by Lauren J.
DeCarvalho Part 3. News Coverage Chapter 9. Feminine Style and Militant
Motherhood in Antiwar Discourse: Cindy Sheehan as Grieving Mother and/or
Left-Leaning Radical by Heidi E. Hamilton Chapter 10. Grisly Mama:
Carnivorous Media Coverage of Sarah Palin by Alena Amato Ruggerio Chapter
11. "Stand by Your Man" Revisited: Political Waves and Scandal by Hinda
Mandell Chapter 12. "Taking Care of the Children and the Country": Nancy
Pelosi and the Trope of Motherhood in Partisan and Mainstream Media by
Sheryl L. Cunningham Chapter 13. Local Media Madness: How One City's Media
Helped Perpetuate the Myth of the "Perfect" Coach's Wife by Diana L. Tucker
Chapter 14. Who's Framing Whom? Michele Bachmann and the (Primary) Politics
of Motherhood by Ann E. Burnette Part 4. Internet Chapter 15. Momtinis, Not
Martyrs: Blogs that Recast Motherhood and Muted Groups by Rita L.
Rahoi-Gilchrest Chapter 16. Love Thy Mother? Discrepant Constructions of
Motherhood in the "Outsmart Mother Nature with Tampax" Campaign by Dacia
Charlesworth Chapter 17. Taking the Audience Perspective: Online Fan
Commentary about the Brides of Mad Men and their Weddings by Lynne M. Webb,
Marceline Thompson Hayes, Hao-Chieh Chang, and Marcia M. Smith