Add to ORKGRecent governments and feminists have agreed on one thing. It is empowering for women and good for the economy if mothers go to work. Yet at the same time, middle class mothers who stay at home are often portrayed by mainstream news media in a positive light. Are those women really ‘choosing’ to stay at home? Is the media helping to create an ‘anti-feminist’ myth around them? A new research project at LSE and Kings College is investigating this complicated issue and here is a taste of their initial results described by Dr Shani Orgad from the LSE’s Department of Media and Communications
Explanations for professional and managerial mothers’ departure from paid work concentrate on childc...
Paper presented to the 4th Annual Symposium on Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects (GRASP) held...
This paper explores the dominant narratives present in in-depth ante- and post- natal interviews wi...
This article juxtaposes mediated representations of stay-at-home mothers (SAHMs) with accounts of tw...
This article analyzes the construction in the UK media of the ‘stay-at-home mother’, a maternal figu...
Women in today’s advanced capitalist societies are encouraged to “lean in.” The media and government...
This article analyzes the construction in the UK media of the ‘stay-at-home mother’, a maternal fig...
Newspaper portrayals of stay-at-home mothers and working moms often limit and distort the motherhood...
The debate on gender equality in the workplace is based predominantly on evidence and anecdote relat...
The social policy climate, labour market trends and gendered arrangements for paid and family work m...
Through a content analysis of print media and a comparison of media images with trends in women’s be...
In a context where the pressures of intensive mothering are all-consuming, mothers who work for pay,...
This paper reports on the interim findings from a two year ESRC (Economic and Social Research Counci...
In The Mommy Myth, Susan Douglas and Meredith Michaels examine the heightened standards of motherhoo...
This short article on family living appeared in Broome County Living magazine, published by Cornell ...
Explanations for professional and managerial mothers’ departure from paid work concentrate on childc...
Paper presented to the 4th Annual Symposium on Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects (GRASP) held...
This paper explores the dominant narratives present in in-depth ante- and post- natal interviews wi...
This article juxtaposes mediated representations of stay-at-home mothers (SAHMs) with accounts of tw...
This article analyzes the construction in the UK media of the ‘stay-at-home mother’, a maternal figu...
Women in today’s advanced capitalist societies are encouraged to “lean in.” The media and government...
This article analyzes the construction in the UK media of the ‘stay-at-home mother’, a maternal fig...
Newspaper portrayals of stay-at-home mothers and working moms often limit and distort the motherhood...
The debate on gender equality in the workplace is based predominantly on evidence and anecdote relat...
The social policy climate, labour market trends and gendered arrangements for paid and family work m...
Through a content analysis of print media and a comparison of media images with trends in women’s be...
In a context where the pressures of intensive mothering are all-consuming, mothers who work for pay,...
This paper reports on the interim findings from a two year ESRC (Economic and Social Research Counci...
In The Mommy Myth, Susan Douglas and Meredith Michaels examine the heightened standards of motherhoo...
This short article on family living appeared in Broome County Living magazine, published by Cornell ...
Explanations for professional and managerial mothers’ departure from paid work concentrate on childc...
Paper presented to the 4th Annual Symposium on Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects (GRASP) held...
This paper explores the dominant narratives present in in-depth ante- and post- natal interviews wi...