From happy homemaker to desperate housewives : motherhood and popular television /: motherhood and popular television. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rebecca Feasey.
• Other Names: Feasey, Rebecca
• Contents: Introduction: theorising motherhood on the small screen -- Soap opera: challenging the "good" mother stereotype -- Situation comedy: the (un)funny mummy wars -- Teen drama: absent, inept and intoxicated mothers -- Dramedy: struggling, sexual and sisterly single mothers -- Reality parenting programming: fragile, failing and ineffectual mothers -- Celebrity reality television: maintaining the "yummy mummy" -- Profile -- Factual television: pregnancy, delivery and the new mother -- Conclusion.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Anthem Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 791.450941; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; Mothers on television; Television programs -- Great Britain; Television programs -- United States; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857282255; 0857282255
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.