| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 125 pages) |
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-118) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Mothers in literature.
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Motherhood in literature.
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Mothers in motion pictures.
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Mothers on television.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Mothers on television
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Mothers in motion pictures
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Mothers in literature
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Motherhood in literature
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American literature
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Literature
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Motherhood
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Mothers
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Motion pictures
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Television
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Literatur
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Amerikanisches Englisch
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Mutter
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020738376 |
| ISBN |
9780739171189 |
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0739171186 |
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9781299553521 |
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1299553524 |
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