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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

  final confrontation between Red and Adelaide in adulthood, however, Red evokes another possibility for ... Framed this way, conflicts with the other become a necessary site of reproduction where each side battles ... possible. At this point, it was not yet defined by the affective shock of replacement and the revenge ...
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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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  the unfavorable side of the dichotomy presented, if the desired behavior of a devoted, attached parent ...
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  Lampooning Failure in the ‘Mom-com’ Genre

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  Rachel Williamson University of Canterbury

  May 07, 2019

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  has an accident in the movie foyer. When Audrey follows her to the bathroom, Sophie cries “I’m a mess” ...
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  The (Social) Mediated Myth of Childbirth

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  Charlotte Keniston University of Maryland Baltimore County

  May 06, 2019

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  were a statistical possibility--according to the Centers for Disease Control, in the United States, 32% ...
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  We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011): What culpability does a mother bear for the sins of her children?

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  Sloan Joyner

  September 24, 2025

  she contemplates what she could have possibly done differently to prevent this from ever happening. ...
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  Pump & Dump the Patriarchy: How Media Influences Motherhood

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  Corrie Locke-Hardy Simmons University

  May 08, 2019

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  Pump & Dump the Patriarchy: How Media Influences Motherhood media motherhood social media Breastfeeding Breast pumping culture society Curator's Note In December of 2018, during a photo shoot for the magazine  Girls,  actress Rachel McAdams was p ...
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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 ...