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Mother Trouble : Mediations of White Maternal Angst after Second Wave Feminism
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Title
Mother Trouble : Mediations of White Maternal Angst after Second Wave Feminism / Miranda J. Brady.
ISBN
9781487556945
9781487556938
9781487556952
Publication
London : University of Toronto Press, 2024.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2024
Copyright Notice Date
©2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource (158 pages).
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on print version record.
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Summary
"Mother Trouble traces white maternal angst in popular culture across a span of more than fifty years, from the iconic Rosemary's Baby to anti-vaxx mom memes and HGTV shows. The book narrows in on popular media to think about white maternal angst as a manifestation of feminism's unrealized possibilities and continued omissions since the second wave. It interrogates intersecting systems of power which make mothers and their children the most impoverished people in the world and urges a greater appreciation in academic and popular thinking of the work that mothers do. The book calls for an analytical expansion beyond gender to better address the erasure of reproductive labour, and especially that performed by migrants and people of colour. It illustrates the continued marginalization of racialized mothers and the disproportionate amount of labour performed by all mothers in a society where their work is devalued. Ultimately, Mother Trouble reveals how the unease around white motherhood in the media has become a proxy for the troubles faced by all mothers."-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2024.
Other formats
Print version: Brady, Miranda J. Mother trouble. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2024
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 14, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Unfinished Business
"I Think the Men Are Behind It": Reproductive Labour and the Horror of Second Wave Feminism
Mother Hustle: Entrepreneurial Motherhood in Home Renovation and Design Television
Good Karen, Bad Karen: Visual Culture and the Anti-Vaxx Mom on Reddit
Disappearing Mom: Maternal Estrangement and Televisual Alienation in Modern Family and Shameless
Raised by a Menopausal Android: Middle-Age Rage and Maternal Futurism in Raised by Wolves
A Long Way from Liberation.
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