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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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  Kathryn van Arendonk points out such images also run the risk of becoming overly familiar, compulsively ... “we’re all the same in our parenting mistakes” not only runs the risk of negating differences between ...
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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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  In these circles I learned that my story is not unique. And yet, mine was not the birth story that ...
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  Fifty Shades of Grey and "Mommy Porn"

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  Erika Johnson-Lewis St. Petersburg College

  September 27, 2012

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  "Suburban Christian" attractive because he picks up the ice cream cake and runs other simple errands. ...
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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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  run deeper than these musings often presume. It may be that they reflect particular facets of familial ...
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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

  Viewers come to learn, through disjointed and non-chronological scenes, that the offscreen event that made ...
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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

  anxiety, amidst a high speed, digitally networked environment in which children must learn to navigate ... neoliberalism running.              The threat of homelessness incentivizes neoliberal subjects who develop ... someone who is fundamentally traumatized by extended withholding but certainly capable of learning ...
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  (In)fertility and the Media: ​Representations of Infertility

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  Rebecca Feasey Bath Spa University

  April 20, 2020

  ‘that it is just a matter of commitment and will’ (Korolczuk 2014). Long running family building blogs ... long-running genre texts such as soap opera and situation comedy. She goes on to say that popular television ...