I could not call her mother : the stepmother in American popular culture, 1750-1970 / Leslie J. Lindenauer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindenauer, Leslie J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stepmothers--United States--History.

Stepmothers.

Popular culture--United States.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland ; Plymouth, England : Lexington Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

I Could Not Call Her Mother explores representations of the stepmother in American popular culture from the colonial period to 1960. The archetypal stepmother appears from nineteenth-century romance novels and advice literature to 1930s pulp fiction and film noir. Leslie J. Lindenauer argues that when considered in her historic context, the stepmother serves as a bellwether for changing constructions of motherhood and family. She examines popular culture's role in shaping and reflecting an increasingly normative middle class definition of t

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction; 1 Unbounded in her Malice; 2 I Could Not Call Her Mother; 3 The Substitute Mother in the Nineteenth Century; 4 The Educated [Step] Mother; 5 The Family in the Funhouse Mirror; 6 Tunnel of Love; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4985-2050-2

0-7391-6682-4

OCLC:

864745635