Writing the Modern Family - Contemporary Literature, Motherhood and Neoliberal Culture

Informationen zum Autor By Roberta Garrett Klappentext This book examines the growing body of autobiographical and fictional writing on family and parenting issues in Anglo-American culture from the late 1990s to the present day. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Literature and the Politicisation of Parenting / 1. Abuse and Enchantment: Misery lit and return of the evil (step)mother / 2. Novels and Children: 'Mum's lit' and the Public Mother as Author / 3. 'I was only being honest': Truth, Myth and Resistance in Contemporary Maternal Memoirs / 4. Fathers Know Best: 'Dads' lit' and the Childcare Wars of the mid 2000s / 5. Angels and Demons: Attachment Parenting and the Dysfunctional Domestic novel / 6. The Neoliberal Fallen Woman

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• Authors: Roberta Garrett, Garrett Roberta
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781786605184
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-518-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Radical Cultural Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, Sociology: family & relationships, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies: women, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Feminism and feminist theory, Sociology: family and relationships, Literary studies: from c 2000