Mediated Maternity: Contemporary American Portrayals of Bad Mothers in Literature and Popular Culture - Linda Seidel - Books - Lexington Books - 9780739171172 - May 9, 2013
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Mediated Maternity: Contemporary American Portrayals of Bad Mothers in Literature and Popular Culture


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This book 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.


146 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released May 9, 2013
ISBN13 9780739171172
Publishers Lexington Books
Pages 146
Dimensions 162 × 239 × 17 mm   ·   362 g
Language English  

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