Mediated maternity : contemporary American portrayals of bad mothers in literature and popular culture / Linda Seidel.

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Seidel, Linda

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text

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computer

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online resource

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9780739171189
0739171186
9781299553521
1299553524

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mediated maternityDDC classification:

810.9/3520431 23

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PS231.M68

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Contents:

Introduction: Mediated motherhood -- Nancy Grace and the motherhood critics -- Neonaticide in Nancy Grace and Jodi Picoult -- Gone baby gone: reproducing the bad mother -- Stereotyping the black welfare mother in Precious -- Creating the reality of postpartum depression in Shields' Down Came the Rain and Morton's Breakable You -- Glenn Close and the monstrous maternal: mothers and daughters in damages -- Epilogue: Motherhood in context.

Summary: Mediated Maternity: Contemporary American Portrayals of Bad Mothers in Literature and Popular Culture, by Linda Seidel, 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-118) and index.

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Mediated Maternity: Contemporary American Portrayals of Bad Mothers in Literature and Popular Culture, by Linda Seidel, 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.

English.

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