Postfeminist Celebrity and Motherhood

Brand Mom
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-87738-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

This book analyzes the intersections of celebrity, self-branding, and "mommy" culture. It examines how images of celebrity moms playing versions of themselves on reality television, social media, gossip sites, and self-branded retail outlets negotiate the complex demands of postfeminism and the current fashion for heroic, labor intensive parenting. The cultural regime of "new momism" insists that women be expert in both affective and economic labor, producing loving families, self-brands based on emotional connections with consumers, and lucrative saleable commodities. Successfully creating all three: a self-brand, a style of motherhood, and lucrative product sales, is represented as the only path to fulfilled adult womanhood and citizenship. The book interrogates the classed and racialized privilege inherent in those success stories and looks for ways that the versions of branded motherhood represented as failures might open a space for a more inclusive emergent feminism.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lagerwey, Jorie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Brand Mom: Celebrity, Branding, and Postfeminist Mommy Culture

1. Branding Baby: Incorporating Conception and Pregnancy into the Self-Brand

2. Bravo Brand Motherhood: Negotiating the Impossibilities of Postfeminism

3. From Honest to GOOP: Lifestyle Brands and Celebrity Motherhood

4. TLC’s Religious Moms: Branding Motherhood with Faith

5. Looking Forward: Cracks in the Foundation of Postfeminism and Mommy Culture

Über Autor(innen)

Jorie Lagerwey is a lecturer in television studies at University College Dublin, Ireland. Her research interests include gender, celebrity, genre, and religion on television and other digital media. Her work has appeared in Cinema Journal, Studies in Popular Culture, Spectator, Flowtv.org and elsewhere.