Mother Trouble
Mediations of White Maternal Angst after Second Wave Feminism
Seiten
2024
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-5693-8 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-5693-8 (ISBN)
Examining television, film, and popular culture, Mother Trouble traces white maternal angst over a historical trajectory of more than fifty years.
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.
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.
Miranda J. Brady is an associate professor of communication and media studies at Carleton University.
Acknowledgments
1. Unfinished Business
2. “I Think the Men Are Behind It”: Reproductive Labour and the Horror of Second Wave Feminism
3. Mother Hustle: Entrepreneurial Motherhood in Home Renovation and Design Television
4. Good Karen, Bad Karen: Visual Culture and the Anti-Vaxx Mom on Reddit
5. Disappearing Mom: Maternal Estrangement and Televisual Alienation in Modern Family and Shameless
6. Raised by a Menopausal Android: Middle-Age Rage and Maternal Futurism in Raised by Wolves
7. A Long Way from Liberation
Notes
Works Cited
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.03.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 360 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-5693-4 / 1487556934 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-5693-8 / 9781487556938 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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