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).
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.
	Celebrities.
	Body image.
	Women -- Identity.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Hallstein, Lynn O'Brien. Bikini-ready moms 9781438459004 (DLC) 2015001461 (OCoLC)902803092
ISBN	9781438459028 (electronic bk.)
	1438459025 (electronic bk.)
	9781438459004 (paperback : alk. paper)
	1438459009 (paperback : alk. paper)
	9781438459011 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	1438459017 (hardcover : alk. paper)