In recent decades, popular culture - from television and film to
newspapers, magazines, and best-selling fiction - has focused an
enormous amount of attention on mothers. Through feminist,
psychoanalytic, sociological, literary, and cultural studies
perspectives, the twenty chapters in this book examine an array of
current and relevant contemporary topics related to maternal
identities such as working, stay-at-home, ambivalent, absent, good,
bad, single, teen, elder, celebrity, and lesbian mothers; and
issues such as the mommy wars, self-care, pregnancy, abortion,
contraception, infanticide, adoption, sex and sexuality,
breastfeeding, post-partum depression, fertility, genetics, and
reproductive technologies. Contributors from Canada, the United
States, Britain, and Australia engage critically and theoretically
with stereotypes perpetuated by popular culture media, and chart
some of the provocative and liberating ways that we can use and
interpret this media to encourage and promote alternative and
transformative maternal readings, identities, and practices.
Mediating Moms looks at mothers as imaged by and in the media; how
mothers mediate or negotiate these images according to their
historical, corporeal, and lived personhoods; and how scholars
mediate the popular and academic discourses of motherhood as a way
of registering, strengthening, and alleviating the tensions between
representation and reality. Mediating Moms engages critically with
stereotypes perpetuated by popular culture, while mapping some of
the provocative and liberating ways that mothers can use the media
to transform and reaffirm their identities. Contributors include
Jennifer Bell (Alberta), H. Louise Davis (Miami), Irene Gammel
(Ryerson), Nicola Goc (Tasmania), Fiona Joy Green (Winnipeg),
Latham Hunter (Mohawk), Joanne Ella Johnson, Hosu Kim (Staten
Island), Beth O'Connor (Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and
Housing), Debra Langan (Wilfrid Laurier), Sally Mennill (British
Columbia), Stuart J. Murray (Ryerson), Kathryn Pallister (Red
Deer), Maud Perrier (Bristol), Lenora Perry (Texas), Dominique
Russell, Jocelyn Stitt (Minnesota), Stephanie Wardrop (Western New
England), Imelda Whelehan (Tasmania).
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