The Palgrave Handbook of Parenthood in Popular Culture

Name: The Palgrave Handbook of Parenthood in Popular Culture
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By Elizabeth Podnieks

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Elizabeth Podnieks and Helena Wahlström Henriksson, Introduction: An Overview of Parenthood in Popular Culture.- 1. Gavin Davies, Expecting Heroes: The Role of the Pregnant Protagonist in Video Games.- 2. Jon Heggestad, Pregnant Men and Alien Others in Science Fiction Television.- 3. Ida Aaskov Dolmer and Charlotte Johanne Fabricius, Gestational Labor and Strategies of Visibility in Fiction and Graphic Memoir.- 4. Reut Odinak, Motherhood and Surrogacy on American Sitcoms.- 5. Emilie St. Hilaire, Non-Reproductive Parenting with Dolls: Facts and Fictions on Reborn Mothers.- 6. Leandra Hernandez, Childfreedom in Popular Culture: A Feminist Analysis of Poor Things.- 7. Sushree Routray, Childfree Heroines and Reproductive Autonomy: Unplanned Pregnancy Narratives of Married Women in Indian Cinema.- 8. Julie Rodgers, Interrogating Non-Motherhood through the Star Text of Jennifer Aniston.- 9. Veronica Frigeni, Life Narratives of Queer Motherhood in Contemporary Italy.- 10. Ridhima Tewari and Sanjana Suukyi, "I am a Mother without a Uterus": Unpacking ‘Motherhood’ through Popular Representations of Activist Gauri Sawant in Contemporary Visual Narratives from India.- 11. Andrea O’Reilly, Misrepresentations and Rerepresentations: Queer Mothering in Kristen Arnett’s With Teeth and Francesca T. Royster’s Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance.- 12. Michael Mayne, Formations Against Family Conscription in Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072.- 13. Jaakko Turunen and Jani Turunen, Narratives of Shared Physical Custody in Online Fora in Sweden and Finland.- 14. Helena Wahlström Henriksson, Single Fathers Fail: Exploring Fatherhood in Swedish Cinematic Drama.- 15. Shannon Lawlor, Playing the Single Dad: Essential Paternity and Disavowed Maternity in Video Games.- 16. Leah Cates and Lacy Guzmán, #BadMomsOfTikTok: How U.S. Momfluencers Engage Social Media to Subvert Notions of Intensive Mothering.- 17. Lisa Wagner Crews, Searching for My Village: The Mom Humor Memescape of Instagram.- 18. Sinchan Chatterjee, ‘Cripping’ Parenthood: Deconstructing the Myth of the ‘Good Mother’ in Bollywood Representations of Disability.- 19. Zahra Jafari, Cinematic Écriture Féminine: Re-Framing Iranian Motherhood.- 20. Rebekah Lawler, Who Can Be Called Mother?: Teen Birth Mothers and Adoption in Young Adult Literature.- 21. Glen Thomas, Yeah Mate? Australian Masculinity and Fatherhood in Bluey.- 22. Rebecca Feasey, Welcome to Wrexham: What Disney’s Docuseries Can Tell Us About Football and Fatherhood.- 23. Katie Barnett, Home for the Hollywood Holidays: White Fathers, Family, and the ‘True’ Meaning of Christmas On Screen.- 24. Zvonimir Prtenjaca, Powering Through Stereotypes: Black Fatherhood and Alternative Masculinity in Luke Cage Comic Books.- 25. Malose Langa, Tshisuaka E. Kabongo, Christopher Kane, Livhuwani Maphorogo, Lereko Mfono, Harriet Perlman, and Garth Japhet, New Voices of Fatherhood in South Africa in the Fathers Matter TV and Online Film Series.- 26. Melvin G. Hill, The Representation of Black Fathers in Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead and Insomniac Games’ Spiderman: Miles Morales.- 27. Sony Raj and Adith Suresh, Every

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Number of Pages:: 820
Release Date:: 2026-01-03
Publication Date:: 2026-01-03
Publisher:: Springer
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 3031940695
ISBN13:: 9783031940699
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 1377 g
Height:: 16 cm
Width:: 24.1 cm
Thickness:: 5 cm

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