Includes bibliographical references and index Elizabeth Podnieks: Introduction: Popular culture's maternal embrace Stephanie Wardrop: Mommy nearest: TV for preschoolers and the search for the good enough (working) mother Jo Johnson: "Won't somebody think of the children?": The nineties subversion of the animated mother Fiona Joy Green: Real(ity) TV practices of surveillance: evaluating mothers in Supernanny and Crash test mommy Elizabeth Podnieks: "The bump is back": celebrity moms, entertainment journalism, and the "media mother police" Jennifer Bell: Are you a politician or a mother? Nicola Goc: Motherhood, murder, and the media: Joanne Hayes and the Kerry babies case Imelda Whelehan: "Shit and string beans," boredom and babies: bad mothers in popular women's fiction since 1968 Irene Gammel: Mothering across generations: L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables at 100 Beth O'Connor: "You have to take it and own it": Yo' Mama magazine as a space of refusal for teenage mothers Maud Perrier: Mediating risky motherhood: a discursive analysis of offline and online responses to the oldest British mother-to-be Kathryn Pallister: And now, the breast of the story: realistic portrayals of breastfeeding in contemporary television H. Louise Davis: Watch them suffer, watch them die: depictions of African mothers and motherhood in famine footage and in Fernando Meirelles's The constant gardener Dominique Russell: The reality of TV labour: Birth stories Debra Langan: Mothering in the middle and self-care: just one more thing to do Hosu Kim: S/Kin of virtual mothers: loss and mourning on a Korean birthmothers' website Sally Mennill: Fostering the passive maternal experience: language and prescription in the What to expect series of maternity literature Latham Hunter: Motherhood, prime-time TV, and Grey's anatomy Jocelyn Fenton Stitt: Tom vs. Brooke: or postpartum depression as bad mothering in popular culture Lenora Perry-Jamaniego: Other mothers: looking at maternal desire in The l word Stuart J. Murray.: Coming to terms: ethics, motherhood, and the cultural science fiction of the gene |
