Motherhoods, Markets and Consumption : The Making of Mothers in Contemporary Western Cultures

ISBN-13: 9780415516495 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 258 str.

Stephanie O'Donohoe; Margaret Hogg; Pauline Maclaran

Opis

It takes more than a baby to make a mother, and mothers make more than babies. This edited collection brings together a range of international studies to explore the role of markets and consumption in the making of mothers.

Combining personal accounts from many mothers with different theoretical perspectives and organized into four main sections, this book:

• Considers how advertising, media and consumer culture contribute to myths and stereotypes concerning good and bad mothers
• Explores how particular consumer choices are bound up with women s identities as mothers
• Highlights how mothers deal with social expectations, marketing practices and family taste in feeding their families
• Explores the role of consumption for women entering different phases of their mothering lives: such as pregnancy, early motherhood, and the "empty nest"
• Considers how women s identities as mothers do not exist in isolation, but are shaped by their interactions with others, both within and beyond the immediate family

Motherhoods, Markets and Consumption examines how marketing and consumer culture constructs particular images of what mothers are, what they should care about and how they should behave; exploring how women's use of consumer goods and services shapes how they mother as well as how they are seen and judged by others.

Spis treści

1. The Making of Mothers  Part I: Motherhood as an Ideological, Mediated Project  2. Motherhood in the Movies, 1942-2010: Social Class Mobility and Economic Power  3. Designing Mothers and the Market: Social Class and Material Culture  4. How to be a Mother: Expert Advice and the Material Subject  5. Negotiations of Motherhood: Between Ideals and Practice  Part II: Feeding Motherhood  6. "It won't do her any Harm" they said, "Or they wouldn't put it on the Market": Infant Weaning, Markets and Mothers' Narratives of Trust  7. Contesting Food: Contesting Mothering?  8. Food, Cooking and Motherhood amongst Bosnian Refugees in Sweden  9. Images of Motherhood: Food Advertising in Good Housekeeping Magazine, 1950-2010  Part III: Motherhood, Consumption and Transitions  10. Bouncing Back: Reclaiming the Body from Pregnancy  11. Managing Pregnancy Work: Consumption, Emotion and Embeddedness  12. Engaging with the Maternal: Tentative Mothering Acts and the Props of Performance  13. Mothers and their Empty Nests: Employing Consumption Practices to Negotiate a Major Life Transition  14. Whose Work is it Anyway?: The Shifting Dynamics of Accountability and Responsibility in Family Mealtime Practices  Part IV: Consumption and Contested Motherhood Identities  15. Mothering, Poverty and Consumption  16. On Markets and Motherhood: The Case of American Mothers of Children Adopted from China  17. Spectacular Pregnancy Loss: The Public Private Lives of the Santorums and Duggars at the Intersection of Politics, Religion and Tabloid Culture  18. Pregnancy, Privacy and Personhood in the Consumer Socialization of Expectant Mothers

O autorze

Stephanie O’Donohoe is Professor of Advertising and Consumer Culture at the University of Edinburgh, UK Margaret Hogg is Fulgoni Professor of Consumer Behaviour and Marketing at Lancaster University Management School , UK Pauline Maclaran is Professor of Marketing and Consumer Research at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Lydia Martens is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Keele University, UK Lorna Stevens is Senior Lecturer in Marketing at the University of the West of Scotland, UK