Description
This book analyzes the intersections of celebrity, self-branding, and "mommy" culture. It examines how images of celebrity moms playing versions of themselves on reality television, social media, gossip sites, and self-branded retail outlets negotiate the complex demands of postfeminism and the current fashion for heroic, labor intensive parenting. The cultural regime of "new momism" insists that women be expert in both affective and economic labor, producing loving families, self-brands based on emotional connections with consumers, and lucrative saleable commodities. Successfully creating all three: a self-brand, a style of motherhood, and lucrative product sales, is represented as the only path to fulfilled adult womanhood and citizenship. The book interrogates the classed and racialized privilege inherent in those success stories and looks for ways that the versions of branded motherhood represented as failures might open a space for a more inclusive emergent feminism.
About the Author
Jorie Lagerwey is a lecturer in television studies at University College Dublin, Ireland. Her research interests include gender, celebrity, genre, and religion on television and other digital media. Her work has appeared in Cinema Journal, Studies in Popular Culture, Spectator, Flowtv.org and elsewhere.
Book Information
ISBN 9780367877385
Author Jorie Lagerwey
Format Paperback
Page Count 136
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 453g
