04007nam 2200673Ia 450 991078600920332120200520144314.01-283-94061-20-7391-7709-5(CKB)2670000000330440(EBL)1108242(OCoLC)845249560(SSID)ssj0000804769(PQKBManifestationID)12336534(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000804769(PQKBWorkID)10833804(PQKB)10837046(MiAaPQ)EBC1108242(Au-PeEL)EBL1108242(CaPaEBR)ebr10643343(CaONFJC)MIL425311(EXLCZ)99267000000033044020120719d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrMedia depictions of brides, wives, and mothers[electronic resource] /Alena Amato RuggerioLanham, MD Lexington Booksc20121 online resource (258 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-9304-X 0-7391-7708-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Television; 1 Domesticating Matrimonial Monstrosity: Bridezillas and Narratives of Feminine Containment; 2 The Reality of Televised Motherhood: The Personal Quest and Feminine Test of Kate Gosselin; 3 Marriage, Friendship, and Scandal: Constructing a Typology of Media Representation of Women in Desperate Housewives; 4 Ancient Archetypes in Modern Media; 5 Christian Patriarchy Lite: TLC's 19 Kids and Counting; Part II Film6 Punishing Unfaithful Wives and Working Mothers: Messages of Post-feminism in Contemporary Film 7 Love and Lack: Media, Witches, and Normative Gender Roles; 8 Head Above Water: Applying Nussbaum's "Capabilities Approach" to Deepa Mehta's 2005 Film; Part III News Coverage; 9 Feminine Style and Militant Motherhood in Antiwar Discourse: Cindy Sheehan as Grieving Mother and/or Left-Leaning Radical; 10 Grisly Mama: Carnivorous Media Coverage of Sarah Palin; 11 "Stand by Your Man" Revisited: Political Wives and Scandal12 "Taking Care of the Children and the Country": Nancy Pelosi and the Trope of Motherhood in Partisan and Mainstream Media 13 Local Media Madness: How One City's Media Helped Perpetuate the Myth of the "Perfect" Coach's Wife; 14 Who's Framing Whom? Michele Bachmann and the (Primary) Politics of Motherhood; Part IV Internet; 15 Momtinis, Not Martyrs: Examining 'Anti-Mom' Blogs, Muted Groups, Standpoints, and the Struggle over Motherhood; 16 Love Thy Mother? Traitorous Constructions of Motherhood in "Outsmart Mother Nature with Tampax" Campaign17 Taking the Audience Perspective: Online Fan Commentary about the Brides of Mad Men and Their Weddings Index; Contributors; About the EditorMedia 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 communication discipline to their analyses of how media shape our expectations of the performance of women's domestic roles.Women in mass mediaSex role in mass mediaBridesWivesMothersWomen in mass media.Sex role in mass media.Brides.Wives.Mothers.306.874/3Ruggerio Alena Amato1975-1483782MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786009203321Media depictions of brides, wives, and mothers3702071UNINA