Maternal Narratives in Public Contexts: Shaping Perspectives and Enacting Identities
Maternal Narratives in Public Contexts: Shaping Perspectives and Enacting Identities brings together critical research on the construction and enactment of mothering and motherhood in public spheres. The book is divided into two parts – in the first part, authors examine how prevailing ideals of motherhood influence twenty-first century culture by exploring iterations of maternal identity in various media forms, from Dr. Spock’s self-help guide to film and small-screen entertainment. In the second part, the authors investigate how tropes of motherhood manifest and operate in academia, the workplace, and in political spheres. Ultimately, this book explores how maternal identities are both formed and articulated in public discourse, arguing that rhetorical influences inform the ways in which we define, recognize, and enact maternal identities and the sociocultural ramifications that result within communication contexts. Scholars of communication, media studies, film and television studies, cultural studies, rhetoric, and women’s and gender studies will find this book of particular interest.
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Maternal Narratives in Public Contexts: Shaping Perspectives and Enacting Identities
Maternal Narratives in Public Contexts: Shaping Perspectives and Enacting Identities brings together critical research on the construction and enactment of mothering and motherhood in public spheres. The book is divided into two parts – in the first part, authors examine how prevailing ideals of motherhood influence twenty-first century culture by exploring iterations of maternal identity in various media forms, from Dr. Spock’s self-help guide to film and small-screen entertainment. In the second part, the authors investigate how tropes of motherhood manifest and operate in academia, the workplace, and in political spheres. Ultimately, this book explores how maternal identities are both formed and articulated in public discourse, arguing that rhetorical influences inform the ways in which we define, recognize, and enact maternal identities and the sociocultural ramifications that result within communication contexts. Scholars of communication, media studies, film and television studies, cultural studies, rhetoric, and women’s and gender studies will find this book of particular interest.
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Maternal Narratives in Public Contexts: Shaping Perspectives and Enacting Identities

Maternal Narratives in Public Contexts: Shaping Perspectives and Enacting Identities

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Maternal Narratives in Public Contexts: Shaping Perspectives and Enacting Identities brings together critical research on the construction and enactment of mothering and motherhood in public spheres. The book is divided into two parts – in the first part, authors examine how prevailing ideals of motherhood influence twenty-first century culture by exploring iterations of maternal identity in various media forms, from Dr. Spock’s self-help guide to film and small-screen entertainment. In the second part, the authors investigate how tropes of motherhood manifest and operate in academia, the workplace, and in political spheres. Ultimately, this book explores how maternal identities are both formed and articulated in public discourse, arguing that rhetorical influences inform the ways in which we define, recognize, and enact maternal identities and the sociocultural ramifications that result within communication contexts. Scholars of communication, media studies, film and television studies, cultural studies, rhetoric, and women’s and gender studies will find this book of particular interest.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781666923902
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 02/12/2025
Pages: 276
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Rachel D. Davidson is associate professor in the Department of Communication at Hanover College.
Catherine A. Dobris is associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Indiana University Indianapolis.
Kim White-Mills is director of graduate programs and faculty in the Department of Communication Studies at Indiana University Indianapolis.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Spockian Mother: Images of the “Good” Mother in Dr. Spock’s The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, 1946-1992
Catherine A. Dobris, Kim White-Mills, Rachel D. Davidson, and Toula V. Wellbrook
Chapter 2: What Makes a “Bad” Mom “Bad”?: Lucas and Moore’s Bad Moms (2016) and A Bad Moms Christmas (2017)
Catherine A. Dobris, Rachel D. Davidson, and Kim White-Mills
Chapter 3: Juxtaposing Incongruities and Undermining Feminist Alternatives: Gender, Sexuality, and Caregiving in Netflix’s, I Care A Lot (2020)
Rachel D. Davidson and Catherine A. Dobris
Chapter 4: Film as Invitational Rhetoric: Transcending Motherhood Narratives through Community in 20th Century Women
Rachel D. Davidson and Catherine A. Dobris
Chapter 5: Animating the Nuances of the “Bad Mother”: Rhetorical Strategies of Resistance in BoJack Horseman
Catherine A. Dobris and Rachel D. Davidson
Chapter 6: Social Media and Motherhood: “Karen” as the New Bad Mother
Catherine A. Dobris, Rachel D. Davidson, and Janice Day
Chapter 7: A Rhetoric of Domestic Responsibility: Uncovering Patriarchal Motherhood in Unpaid Caregiving Advocacy Rhetoric
Rachel D. Davidson and Catherine A. Dobris
Chapter 8: Faculty as Caregiver and Mother-Substitutes: Exploring Female Faculty Members’ Perceptions of Mothering Behaviors in the Classroom
Kim White-Mills and Rachel D. Davidson
Chapter 9: Negotiating Identity: Mothers’ Adoption of Organizational Identities
Kim White-Mills and Morgan Dosterglick
Chapter 10: The Rhetoric of Wives and Mothers on the Highest Court in the Land: Narrative Probability and Fidelity in Women’s Supreme Court Nominees’ Opening Statements
Catherine A. Dobris, Kim White-Mills, Rachel D. Davidson, and Janice Day
Chapter 11: Republican Motherhood in Public Health Campaigns: A Rhetorical Analysis of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Program
Morgan Dosterglick, Catherine A. Dobris, and Rachel D. Davidson
Chapter 12: The Mother in All of Us: How Michelle Obama, Jill Biden, and Kamala Harris Rhetorically Engage the Motherhood Narrative
Catherine A. Dobris and Rachel D. Davidson
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