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  Mommy Moderators and the Gatekeeping of Motherhood

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  Elizabeth Hornsby Southeastern Louisiana University

  May 10, 2019

  and commiseration? The Parent’s video begins with a tongue-in-cheek post from a mom seeking advice ...
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  Guilty mothers and innocent children

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  Filipa Antunes University of East Anglia

  September 18, 2019

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  begins as guilt shared by mother and child over a mutually-neglected relationship is later presented solely ...
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  Motherhood in Pieces

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  Annelie Bränström Öhman Umea University Sweden

  September 17, 2019

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  mothers, none of them qualifying for any Mother of the Year Award, to say the least (without spoiling the ...
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  Maintaining the Neoliberal Home: Reproducing the Self through the Body of the Other

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  Corey Couch Georgia State University

  September 23, 2025

  with their likenesses one by one as they, themselves, begin to move up and down in social ... narrative that begins the shift from a classical organization (separation) into a neoliberal structure ... looked at as they continuously move locations— at least they’re never ungrounded, untethered, without the ...
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  Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon: The Gender Politics of the Mother Daughter Bond

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  Virginia Kuhn University of Southern California

  March 26, 2012

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  Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon: The Gender Politics of the Mother Daughter Bond The Hunger Games motherhood heroines gender politics Curator's Note The release of  The Hunger Games  finds Jennifer Lawrence in her second coming-of-age role, playing ...
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  Problematic Motherhood: Disney Princesses and the Missing or Overbearing Mother

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  Kate Morgan Newscastic/The Electric Feast

  March 30, 2016

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  Problematic Motherhood: Disney Princesses and the Missing or Overbearing Mother motherhood Freud Disney Princesses Curator's Note When considering the pantheon of Disney Princesses and the presentations of femininity found within its parameters, it i ...
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  (In)fertility and the Media: ​Representations of Infertility

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  Rebecca Feasey Bath Spa University

  April 20, 2020

  fertility because ‘88% of women overestimated by 5-10 years the age at which fertility begins to decline’ ...