O'Brien Hallstein Bikini-Ready Moms

Celebrity Profiles, Motherhood, and the Body
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5902-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 275 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory

Argues that expectations for mothering include a new core principle of "body work."

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Brien Hallstein, Lynn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: New and Changing Celebrity Mom Profiles: Theoretical Grounding and Interdisciplinary Rhetorical Approach and Method

1. Contemporary Motherhood at the Epicenter of Intersecting Cultural Changes: The Neoliberal and Post-Second Wave Turns

2. Step One—Becoming First-Time Mothers: Slender-Pregnant Celebrity Mom Profiles

3. Step Two—Being Bikini-Ready Moms: Postpartum Celebrity Mom Profiles

4. Consequences, Rules, and Conclusions about Bikini-Ready Moms

5. Resisting Being Bikini-Ready Moms: Five Strategies of Resistance

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lynn O'Brien Hallstein is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Boston University and the author of White Feminists and Contemporary Maternity: Purging Matrophobia.