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From happy homemaker to desperate housewives : motherhood and popular television /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Feasey, Rebecca
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Mothers on television.
Television programs > Great Britain.
Television programs > United States.
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.