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Bikini-Ready Moms: Celebrity Profiles, Motherhood, and the Body

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

Winner of the 2016 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG)

The requirements of "good" motherhood used to primarily involve the care of children, but now contemporary mothers are also pressured to become bikini-ready immediately postpartum. Lynn O'Brien Hallstein analyzes celebrity mom profiles to determine the various ways that they enc...