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Mediated Maternity - Contemporary American Portrayals of Bad Mothers in Literature and Popular Culture (Hardcover)
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Mediated Maternity - Contemporary American Portrayals of Bad Mothers in Literature and Popular Culture (Hardcover)
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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.
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