Mediating moms mothers in popular culture (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: Popular culture's maternal embrace / Elizabeth Podnieks -- Mommy nearest: TV for preschoolers and the search for the good enough (working) mother / Stephanie Wardrop -- "Won't somebody think of the children?": The nineties subversion of the animated mother / Jo Johnson -- Real(ity) TV practices of surveillance: evaluating mothers in Supernanny and Crash test mommy / Fiona Joy Green -- "The bump is back": celebrity moms, entertainment journalism, and the "media mother police" / Elizabeth Podnieks -- Are you a politician or a mother? / Jennifer Bell -- Motherhood, murder, and the media: Joanne Hayes and the Kerry babies case / Nicola Goc -- "Shit and string beans," boredom and babies: bad mothers in popular women's fiction since 1968 / Imelda Whelehan -- Mothering across generations: L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables at 100 / Irene Gammel -- "You have to take it and own it": Yo' Mama magazine as a space of refusal for teenage mothers / Beth O'Connor --
- Mediating risky motherhood: a discursive analysis of offline and online responses to the oldest British mother-to-be / Maud Perrier -- And now, the breast of the story: realistic portrayals of breastfeeding in contemporary television / Kathryn Pallister -- Watch them suffer, watch them die: depictions of African mothers and motherhood in famine footage and in Fernando Meirelles's The constant gardener / H. Louise Davis -- The reality of TV labour: Birth stories / Dominique Russell -- Mothering in the middle and self-care: just one more thing to do / Debra Langan -- S/Kin of virtual mothers: loss and mourning on a Korean birthmothers' website / Hosu Kim -- Fostering the passive maternal experience: language and prescription in the What to expect series of maternity literature / Sally Mennill -- Motherhood, prime-time TV, and Grey's anatomy / Latham Hunter -- Tom vs. Brooke: or postpartum depression as bad mothering in popular culture / Jocelyn Fenton Stitt --
- Other mothers: looking at maternal desire in The l word / Lenora Perry-Jamaniego -- Coming to terms: ethics, motherhood, and the cultural science fiction of the gene / Stuart J. Murray
A collection of essays showcasing intersections of mothering, the media and popular culture