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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Popular Culture’s Maternal Embrace 3
elizabeth podnieks
Section One Maternal Surveillance
1 Mommy Nearest: tv for Preschoolers and the Search
for the Good Enough (Working) Mother 35
stephanie wardrop
2 “Won’t Somebody Think of the Children?”:
The Nineties Subversion of the Animated Mother 53
jo johnson
3 Real(ity) tv Practices of Surveillance: Evaluating Mothers
in Supernanny and Crash Test Mommy 69
fiona joy green
4 “The Bump is Back”: Celebrity Moms, Entertainment Journalism,
and the “Media Mother Police” 87
elizabeth podnieks
5 Are You a Politician or a Mother? 108
jennifer bell
6 Motherhood, Murder, and the Media: Joanne Hayes
and the Kerry Babies Case 125
nicola goc
Section Two Generational Motherhood
7 “Shit and String Beans,” Boredom and Babies:
Bad Mothers in Popular Women’s Fiction Since 1968 147
imelda whelehan
8 Mothering Across Generations: L.M. Montgomery’s
Anne of Green Gables at 100 167
irene gammel
9 “You have to take it and own it”: Yo’ Mama Magazine
as a Space of Refusal for Teenage Mothers 185
beth o’connor
10 Mediating Risky Motherhood: A Discursive Analysis
of Ofl ine and Online Responses to the Oldest British
Mother-to-be 204
maud perrier
Section Three Pregnant and Postpartum Bodies
11 And Now, the Breast of the Story: Realistic Portrayals
of Breastfeeding in Contemporary Television 221
kathryn pallister
12 Watch Them Suffer, Watch Them Die: Depictions of African
Mothers and Motherhood in Famine Footage and
in Fernando Meirelles’s The Constant Gardener 236
h. louise davis
13 The Reality of tv Labour: Birth Stories 253
dominique russell
14 Mothering in the Middle and Self-care:
Just One More Thing to Do 268
debra langan
15 S/Kin of Virtual Mothers:
Loss and Mourning on a Korean Birthmothers’ Website 284
hosu kim
Section Four Medical Interventions and Reproductive
Technologies
16 Fostering the Passive Maternal Experience: Language
and Prescription in the What to Expect Series of Maternity
Literature 303
sally mennill
17 Motherhood, Prime-time tv, and Grey’s Anatomy 320
latham hunter
18 Tom vs. Brooke: Or Postpartum Depression as Bad
Mothering in Popular Culture 339
jocelyn fenton stitt
19 Other Mothers: Looking at Maternal Desire
in The L Word 358
lenora perry-jamaniego
20 Coming to Terms: Ethics, Motherhood, and the Cultural
Science Fiction of the Gene 376
stuart j. murray
Contributors 395
Index 401