| Bikini-Ready Moms: Celebrity Profiles, Motherhood, and the Body Contributor(s): O'Brien Hallstein, Lynn (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438459009 ISBN-13: 9781438459004 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Parenting - Motherhood - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 306.874 |
| LCCN: 2015001461 |
| Series: Suny Feminist Criticism and Theory |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9" (0.80 lbs) 275 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |