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In this book, authors explore the underpinnings of maternal identity in contemporary culture through analyses of images, definitions, behaviors, and ideologies found in film, television, and social media contexts and in academic, corporate, and political spheres. The book reveals how we define, recognize, and enact maternal identity.
List of contents
Chapter 1: The Spockian Mother: Images of the "Good" Mother in Dr. Spock's The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, 1946-1992
Catherine A. Dobris, Kim White-Mills, Rachel D. Davidson, and Toula V. Wellbrook
Chapter 2: What Makes a "Bad" Mom "Bad"?: Lucas and Moore's Bad Moms (2016) and A Bad Moms Christmas (2017)
Catherine A. Dobris, Rachel D. Davidson, and Kim White-Mills
Chapter 3: Juxtaposing Incongruities and Undermining Feminist Alternatives: Gender, Sexuality, and Caregiving in Netflix's, I Care A Lot (2020)
Rachel D. Davidson and Catherine A. Dobris
Chapter 4: Film as Invitational Rhetoric: Transcending Motherhood Narratives through Community in 20th Century Women
Rachel D. Davidson and Catherine A. Dobris
Chapter 5: Animating the Nuances of the "Bad Mother": Rhetorical Strategies of Resistance in BoJack Horseman
Catherine A. Dobris and Rachel D. Davidson
Chapter 6: Social Media and Motherhood: "Karen" as the New Bad Mother
Catherine A. Dobris, Rachel D. Davidson, and Janice Day
Chapter 7: A Rhetoric of Domestic Responsibility: Uncovering Patriarchal Motherhood in Unpaid Caregiving Advocacy Rhetoric
Rachel D. Davidson and Catherine A. Dobris
Chapter 8: Faculty as Caregiver and Mother-Substitutes: Exploring Female Faculty Members' Perceptions of Mothering Behaviors in the Classroom
Kim White-Mills and Rachel D. Davidson
Chapter 9: Negotiating Identity: Mothers' Adoption of Organizational Identities
Kim White-Mills and Morgan Dosterglick
Chapter 10: The Rhetoric of Wives and Mothers on the Highest Court in the Land: Narrative Probability and Fidelity in Women's Supreme Court Nominees' Opening Statements
Catherine A. Dobris, Kim White-Mills, Rachel D. Davidson, and Janice Day
Chapter 11: Republican Motherhood in Public Health Campaigns: A Rhetorical Analysis of Michelle Obama's Let's Move! Program
Morgan Dosterglick, Catherine A. Dobris, and Rachel D. Davidson
Chapter 12: The Mother in All of Us: How Michelle Obama, Jill Biden, and Kamala Harris Rhetorically Engage the Motherhood Narrative
Catherine A. Dobris and Rachel D. Davidson
About the author
Catherine A. Dobris, Rachel Davidson, Kim White-Mills
