Celebrity Moms vs. Welfare Mothers: Media Imagery and the Competition Over Motherhood in America
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
919 W. Illinois St.
Urbana
The media's fixation with motherhood has produced two prevailing and opposing images: the 'canonized celebrity mom' and the 'demonized welfare mother.' How and why did these images arise, and what are their implications for mothers and for public policy?
Sponsored by: Women's Studies Program
In conjunction with: Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Department of Anthropology, Department of English, Department of Political Science, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Institute for Communications Research, School of Social Work, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan, author of Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
