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Media depictions of brides, wives, and mothers /

Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers, edited by Alena Amato Ruggerio, explores how television, film, the internet, and other media variously perpetuate gender stereotypes. The contributors to this volume bring a variety of feminist rhetorical and media criticism approaches from across the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ruggerio, Alena Amato, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I Television : Domesticating matrimonial monstrosity : Bridezillas and narratives of feminine containment / Alyssa Ann Samek
  • The reality of televised motherhood : the personal quest and feminine test of Kate Gosselin / Mary Frances Casper, Deneen Gilmour
  • Marriage, friendship, and scandal : constructing a typology of media representation of women in Desperate housewives / Paula Hopeck, Rebecca K. Ivic
  • Ancient archetypes in modern media / Deborah A. Macey
  • Christian patriarchy lite : TLC's 19 kids and counting / Christy Ellen Mesaros-Winckles
  • pt. II Film : Punishing unfaithful wives and working mothers : messages of postfeminism in contemporary film / Erika M. Thomas
  • Love and lack : media, witches, and normative gender roles / Victoria L. Godwin
  • Head above water : applying Nussbaum's "capabilities approach" in Deepa Mehta's 2005 film / Lauren J. DeCarvalho
  • pt. III News coverage : Feminine style and militant motherhood in antiwar discourse : Cindy Sheehan as grieving mother and/or left-leaning radical / Heidi E. Hamilton
  • Grisly mama : carnivorous media coverage of Sarah Palin / Alena Amato Ruggerio
  • "Stand by your man" revisited : political wives and scandal / Hinda Mandell
  • "Taking care of the children and the country" : Nancy Pelosi and the trope of motherhood in partisan and mainstream media / Sheryl L. Cunningham
  • Local media madness : how one city's media helped perpetuate the myth of the "perfect" coach's wife / Diana L. Tucker
  • Who's framing whom? Michele Bachmann and the (primary) politics of motherhood / Ann E. Burnette
  • pt. IV Internet : Momtinis, not martyrs : examining 'anti-mom' blogs, muted groups, standpoints, and the struggle over motherhood / Rita L. Rahoi-Gilchrest
  • Love thy mother? Traitorous constructions of motherhood in "Outsmart Mother Nature with Tampax" campaign / Dacia Charlesworth
  • Taking the audience perspective : online fan commentary about the brides of Mad Men and their weddings / Lynne M. Webb, Marceline Thompson Hayes, Hao-Chieh Chang, Marcia M. Smith.