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Record Nr.

UNINA9910309940403321

Autore

Feasey Rebecca

Titolo

Mothers on mothers : maternal readings of popular television / / Rebecca Feasey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, 2015

New York, NY : , : Peter Lang, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

3-0353-9745-7

3-0353-0791-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Disciplina

302.23082

Soggetti

Mothers on television

Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. Media methods research: Finding audiences and giving a voice to mothers; Chapter 2. Maternal preferences: From ordinary celebrity to the sitcom star; Chapter 3. Emulation, not identification: Sartorial styles, domestic skills and maternal discipline ; Chapter 4. Bad mothers and poor role models: Maternal inadequacy and the problem of perfection; Conclusion: A call for maternal diversity ; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

From Supernanny to Gilmore Girls, from Katie Price to Holly Willoughby, a wide range of examples of mothers and motherhood appear on television today. Drawing on questionnaires completed by mothers across the UK, this book sheds new light on the diverse ways in which mothers make sense of popular representations of motherhood on television.