Bikini-ready moms : celebrity profiles, motherhood, and the body / Lynn O'Brien Hallstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hallstein, D. Lynn O'Brien, author.

Series:

SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.

SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motherhood.

Celebrities.

Body image.

Women--Identity.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages).

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the 2016 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG)The requirements of "good" motherhood used to primarily involve the care of children, but now contemporary mothers are also pressured to become bikini-ready immediately postpartum. Lynn O'Brien Hallstein analyzes celebrity mom profiles to determine the various ways that they encourage all mothers to engage in body work as the energizing solution to solve any work-life balance struggles they might experience. Bikini-Ready Moms also considers the ways that maternal body work erases any evidence of mothers' contributions both at home and in professional contexts. O'Brien Hallstein theorizes possible ways to fuel a necessary mothers' revolution, while also pointing to initial strategies of resistance.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

New and Changing Celebrity Mom Profiles

Contemporary Motherhood at the Epicenter of Intersecting Cultural Changes

Step One—Becoming First-Time Mothers

Step Two—Being Bikini-Ready Moms

Consequences, Rules, and Conclusions about Bikini-Ready Moms

Resisting Being Bikini-Ready Moms

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438459028

1438459025