Linda Seidel

Mediated Maternity

Contemporary American Portrayals of Bad Mothers in Literature and Popular Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the cultural construction of the bad mother in books, movies, and TV shows, arguing that these portrayals typically have the effect of cementing dominant assumptions about motherhood in place-or, less often, of disrupting those assumptions, causing us to ask whether motherhood could be constructed differently.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 223g
• ISBN-13: 9781498516471
• ISBN-10: 1498516475
• Artikelnr.: 42202715

Autorenporträt

By Linda Seidel

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: Mediated Motherhood Part I: The Nancy Grace
Effect Chapter 1. Nancy Grace and the Motherhood Critics Chapter 2.
Neonaticide in Nancy Grace and Jodi Picoult Part II: Working-Class Mothers
in White and Black Chapter 3. Gone Baby Gone: Reproducing the Bad Mother
Chapter 4. Stereotyping the Black Welfare Mother in Precious Part III:
Alienated Maternity in White Professional Women Chapter 5. Creating the
Reality of Postpartum Depression in Shields' Down Came the Rain and
Morton's Breakable You Chapter 6. Glenn Close and the Monstrous Maternal:
Mothers and Daughters in Damages Epilogue: Motherhood in Context References