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Mediated Maternity

Name: Mediated Maternity
Brand: Lexington Books
SKU: 9781498516471
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Contemporary American Portrayals of Bad Mothers in Literature and Popular Culture

Autor: Linda Seidel

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Autor

Linda Seidel

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2015

Pagini

146

EAN

9781498516471

ISBN

1498516475

Enbook ID

09241120

Editura

Lexington Books

Greutate

216

Dimensiuni

229 x 154 x 15

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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. Portrayals of bad mothers not only help to establish what the good mother is by depicting her opposite, but also serve to illustrate what the culture fears about women in general and mothers in particular. From the ancient horror of female power symbolized by Medea (or, more recently, by Casey Anthony) to the current worry that drug-addicted pregnant women are harming their fetuses, we see a social desire to monitor the reproductive capabilities of women, resulting in more (formal and informal) surveillance than in material (or even moral) support.