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Mommy Angst - 9780313375309

Un libro in lingua di Hall Ann C. (EDT) Bishop Mardia J. (EDT) edito da Greenwood Pub Group, 2009

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This collection of 12 essays, edited by Hall (English, Ohio Dominican U.) and Bishop (communication, U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), examine images of motherhood in American popular culture. Topics include enduring moral tropes of motherhood in television; the absence of mothers and the erasure of agency in Disney portrayals of princesses; the marginalization of mothers in Cuban American pop culture; the portrayal of mother-as-monster; motherhood and violence in the films of Quentin Tarantino; class and teenage pregnancies in American culture; deployed motherhood in the political campaigns of Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, and Sarah Palin; post-pregnancy plastic surgery as cultural symbol; changing perceptions of adoption in American history; the consumer culture of motherhood on the Internet; and types, stereotypes, and counter-types of the Jewish mother in American culture. Praeger is an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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