Mommy Angst by Ann C Hall

Mommy Angst by Ann C Hall

This revealing work looks at representations of motherhood from a wide range of pop culture sources to explore larger questions about the image and self-image of mothers in the United States.

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. * Reference & Research Book News *
Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; general readers. * Choice *

Ann C. Hall is professor of English at Ohio Dominican University, Columbus, OH. Mardia J. Bishop is in the Communication Department at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.

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ISBN 13	9780313375309
ISBN 10	0313375305
Title	Mommy Angst
Author	Ann C Hall
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Year published	2009-10-27
Number of pages	252
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