LEADER 04004nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910824609403321 005 20240313120024.0 010 $a1-283-94061-2 010 $a0-7391-7709-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000330440 035 $a(EBL)1108242 035 $a(OCoLC)845249560 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000804769 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12336534 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000804769 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10833804 035 $a(PQKB)10837046 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1108242 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1108242 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10643343 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL425311 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000330440 100 $a20120719d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMedia depictions of brides, wives, and mothers /$fAlena Amato Ruggerio 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLanham, MD $cLexington Books$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (258 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7391-9304-X 311 $a0-7391-7708-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMedia 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 Film 327 $a6 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 Scandal 327 $a12 "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" Campaign 327 $a17 Taking the Audience Perspective: Online Fan Commentary about the Brides of Mad Men and Their Weddings Index; Contributors; About the Editor 330 $aMedia 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. 606 $aWomen in mass media 606 $aSex role in mass media 606 $aBrides 606 $aWives 606 $aMothers 615 0$aWomen in mass media. 615 0$aSex role in mass media. 615 0$aBrides. 615 0$aWives. 615 0$aMothers. 676 $a306.874/3 700 $aRuggerio$b Alena Amato$f1975-$01702668 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824609403321 996 $aMedia depictions of brides, wives, and mothers$94087372 997 $aUNINA