Mediated Maternity: Contemporary American Portrayals of Bad Mothers in Literature and Popular Culture

Mediated Maternity: Contemporary American Portrayals of Bad Mothers in Literature and Popular Culture
ISBN-10
0739171186
ISBN-13
9780739171189
Category
Family & Relationships
Pages
146
Language
English
Published
2013-05-09
Publisher
Lexington Books
Author
Linda Seidel

Description

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.

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