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From happy homemaker to desperate housewives : motherhood and popular television
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- Summary
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'Motherhood and Popular Television' is designed to introduce readers to key debates concerning the representations of motherhood and the maternal role in contemporary television programming.
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- Creator
- Rebecca Feasey
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2012
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (222 p.)
- ISBNs
- 0857285610, 9780857285614, 9780857282255, 0857282255
- OCLC
- ocn962589381, ocn796754857, ocn826855582
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- 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