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• In Media Res
  Re: Reassurance, fearmongering or cautionary tales: what television teaches young women about motherhood

  Motherhood and age

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  Umea University, Sweden

  Monday, September 16, 2019 — 9:26 am

  Thanks Rebecca for this post. Reading it, I was struck by a number of things. One is that although your informants were so diverse in terms of background, televisual representations shape the ways they think about family and motherhood within a very narro ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Motherhood in Pieces

  Sounds of mothering

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  Umea University, Sweden

  Wednesday, September 18, 2019 — 7:13 am

  Thanks for raising these enmeshed questions of voice, self-expression, motherhood and violence. These narratives certainly make one think about what seems like perennial and unchanging demands and restraints placed on mothers. ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Guilty mothers and innocent children

  A woman's guilt is never done

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  Umea University, Sweden

  Wednesday, September 18, 2019 — 7:22 am

  Thank you Filipa for this thoughprovoking post. Not having seen the third film, I wasn't aware of this trend, but it very interesting that the representation of the child changes, whereas the mother's guilt stays the same. As you note, the films ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Guilty mothers and innocent children

  Thanks

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  Umea University, Sweden

  Tuesday, September 24, 2019 — 1:33 pm

  Thanks, Filippa, for the links. Lots of food for thought there! ...