Title Bikini-ready moms : celebrity profiles, motherhood, and the body / Lynn O'Brien Hallstein.

Publication Info.	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015]
	©2015

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Description	1 online resource (ix, 265 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
	SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.
Summary	Argues that expectations for mothering include a new core principle of'body work.'
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: new and changing celebrity mom profiles: theoretical grounding and interdisciplinary rhetorical approach and method -- Contemporary motherhood at the epicenter of intersecting cultural changes: the neoliberal and post-second wave turns -- Step one: becoming first-time mothers: slender-pregnant celebrity mom profiles -- Step two: being bikini-ready moms: postpartum celebrity mom profiles -- Consequences, rules, and conclusions about bikini-ready moms -- Resisting being bikini-ready moms: five strategies of resistance.
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Subject	Motherhood.
	Motherhood.
	Celebrities.
	Celebrities.
	Body image.
	Body image.
	Women -- Identity.
	Women -- Identity.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Subject	Motherhood.
	Women.
	Womyn.
Other Form:	Print version: Hallstein, Lynn O'Brien. Bikini-ready moms 9781438459004 (DLC) 2015001461 (OCoLC)902803092
ISBN	9781438459028 (electronic book)
	1438459025 (electronic book)
	9781438459004 (paperback : alkaline paper)
	1438459009 (paperback : alkaline paper)
	9781438459011 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
	1438459017 (hardcover : alkaline paper)