Maternal Narratives in Public Contexts: Shaping Perspectives and Enacting Identities

Maternal Narratives in Public Contexts: Shaping Perspectives and Enacting Identities compiles critical research on the construction and enactment of mothering and motherhood in public spheres. Divided into two parts, the first section examines how prevailing ideals of motherhood influence contemporary culture through various media forms, from Dr. Spock’s self-help guide to film and broadcast media. The second section explores how motherhood tropes manifest and operate within academia, the workplace, and political arenas. This book investigates how rhetorical influences play a crucial role in recognizing, defining, and enacting maternal identities. It examines the sociocultural ramifications that arise within communication contexts. Scholars of communication, media studies, film and television studies, cultural studies, 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 compiles critical research on the construction and enactment of mothering and motherhood in public spheres. Divided into two parts, the first section examines how prevailing ideals of motherhood influence contemporary culture through various media forms, from Dr. Spock’s self-help guide to film and broadcast media. The second section explores how motherhood tropes manifest and operate within academia, the workplace, and political arenas. This book investigates how rhetorical influences play a crucial role in recognizing, defining, and enacting maternal identities. It examines the sociocultural ramifications that arise within communication contexts. Scholars of communication, media studies, film and television studies, cultural studies, 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

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Maternal Narratives in Public Contexts: Shaping Perspectives and Enacting Identities compiles critical research on the construction and enactment of mothering and motherhood in public spheres. Divided into two parts, the first section examines how prevailing ideals of motherhood influence contemporary culture through various media forms, from Dr. Spock’s self-help guide to film and broadcast media. The second section explores how motherhood tropes manifest and operate within academia, the workplace, and political arenas. This book investigates how rhetorical influences play a crucial role in recognizing, defining, and enacting maternal identities. It examines the sociocultural ramifications that arise within communication contexts. Scholars of communication, media studies, film and television studies, cultural studies, and women’s and gender studies will find this book of particular interest.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781666923919
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 12/15/2024
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 274
File size: 420 KB

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 and adjunct professor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Indiana University Indianapolis.

Kim White-Mills is associate professor and Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Communication Studies, and adjunct professor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality 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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