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

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Roberta Garrett is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of East London, UK

Product details

• Authors: Roberta Garrett, Garrett Roberta
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2021
• EAN: 9781786616500
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-650-0
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 218 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 304 g
• Series: Radical Cultural Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; 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