From happy homemaker to desperate housewives motherhood and popular television /
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Anthem Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: theorising motherhood on the small screen
- Soap opera: challenging the "good" mother stereotype
- Situation comedy: the (un)funny mummy wars
- Teen drama: absent, inept and intoxicated mothers
- Dramedy: struggling, sexual and sisterly single mothers
- Reality parenting programming: fragile, failing and ineffectual mothers
- Celebrity reality television: maintaining the "yummy mummy"
- Profile
- Factual television: pregnancy, delivery and the new mother
- Conclusion.