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Mediated maternity : contemporary American portrayals of bad mothers in literature and popular culture / Linda Seidel.
- Title
- Mediated maternity : contemporary American portrayals of bad mothers in literature and popular culture / Linda Seidel.
- Author
- Seidel, Linda.
- Publication
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2013]
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- Description
- xix, 125 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: Mediated motherhood -- Nancy Grace and the motherhood critics -- Neonaticide in Nancy Grace and Jodi Picoult -- Gone baby gone: reproducing the bad mother -- Stereotyping the black welfare mother in Precious -- Creating the reality of postpartum depression in Shields' Down Came the Rain and Morton's Breakable You -- Glenn Close and the monstrous maternal: mothers and daughters in damages -- Epilogue: Motherhood in context.
- ISBN
- 9780739171172 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0739171178 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780739171189 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2013010023
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library