{"product_id":"9783031940699","title":"The Palgrave Handbook of Parenthood in Popular Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis Handbook showcases representations of parenthood in twenty-first-century popular culture, critically assessing how these representations shape, respond to, and redefine notions of families, as well as popular culture genres. Uniquely, the collection brings together motherhood, fatherhood, and parenthood studies. Chapters use intersectional approaches to illuminate LGBTQ+, racialized, Indigenous, and AI-generated as well as normative or mainstream parental subjectivities and also address the topic of non-parenthood. The volume analyzes games, comics, social media, literature, film, television, and more. It is global in scope, signaled by the diverse cultural and geopolitical locations of the contributors and the texts they examine. Chapters are produced out of and\/or are set within Canada, the United States, Britain, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Finland, India, Iran, China, Japan, South Korea, Jamaica, South Africa, and Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElizabeth 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 Child Matters: Non-normative Fatherhood of Care and Compassion in Malayalam Cinema.- 28.    Julie Thompson, Pulling Every Dream from Her Own Marrow : Indigenous Parenthood and Re-Storying Origins in Cherie Dimaline s The Marrow Thieves.- 29.    Elizabeth Pod\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Podnieks\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Professor in the Department of English at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. She is the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eTextual Mothers\/Maternal Texts: Motherhood in Contemporary Women s Literatures\u003c\/em\u003e; and the sole editor of \u003cem\u003eMediating Moms: Mothers in Popular Culture, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Pops in Pop Culture: Fatherhood, Masculinity, and the New Man\u003c\/em\u003e. Her most recent monograph is \u003cem\u003eMaternal Modernism: Narrating New Mothers\u003c\/em\u003e (Palgrave, 2023).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHelena Wahlström Henriksson\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor at the Centre for Gender Research at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her work on representations of fathers and mothers in literature, media, and film has appeared in monographs including \u003cem\u003eNew Fathers? Contemporary American Stories of Masculinity, Domesticity, and Kinship\u003c\/em\u003e (2010). She has edited several collections, including \u003cem\u003eNarratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing \u003c\/em\u003e(Palgrave, 2023).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48869892391147,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":402.84,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9783031940699-1.jpg?v=1781717943","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9783031940699","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}