Good, Bad or Just Good Enough: Representations of Motherhood and the Maternal Role on the Small Screen. Issue 1 (1st August 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Feasey, Rebecca
• Is Part Of: Studies in the maternal. Volume 9:Issue 1(2017)
• Publication Date: 2017-08-01
• Subjects: Motherhood -- Periodicals; 306.8743
• DOI: 10.16995/sim.234
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1759-0434

Abstract

This article seeks to introduce the contemporary maternal experience and the 'good' mother myth as it exists within the media landscape before considering the ways in which the situation comedy in general and the new American comedy, Mom (2013– ) in particular have negotiated ideal images of home, hearth, family and motherhood.