The bad mothers club: In Cyberspace, you can hear the unruly women laughing

Title: The bad mothers club: In Cyberspace, you can hear the unruly women laughing
Creator: Goriss-Hunter, Anitra
Date: 2021
Type: Text; Book chapter
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/188927
Identifier: vital:17341
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1gd0vm7.8
Identifier: ISBN:978-1-77258-320-5
Abstract: Despite feminist interventions, it is obvious that there are serious problems with the ways in which maternal bodies are described and defined. Representations of good and bad mothers offer narrow, restrictive, and prescriptive scripts for maternal bodies. Searching for some possible solutions to the issues concerning restrictive representations of maternity, I found the maternity website, Bad Mothers Club (BMC). BMC is a British website, edited and published by Stephanie Calman, that was set up in response to the increasing volume of information about pregnancy and childrearing from a variety of domains, which arguably seek to regulate, control, and profit from. maternal bodies "From introduction"
Publisher: Demeter Press
Relation: Who’s Laughing Now? Chapter five p. 61-74
Rights: All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
Rights: Copyright Demeter Press
Subject: Sociology; Gender studies; Feminist and Women's studies
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