Palgrave Handbook of Parenthood in Popular Culture

Elizabeth Podnieks is a Professor in the Department of English at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. She is the co-editor of Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts: Motherhood in Contemporary Women’s Literatures; and the sole editor of Mediating Moms: Mothers in Popular Culture, and Pops in Pop Culture: Fatherhood, Masculinity, and the New Man. Her most recent monograph is Maternal Modernism: Narrating New Mothers (Palgrave, 2023).Helena Wahlström Henriksson 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 New Fathers? Contemporary American Stories of Masculinity, Domesticity, and Kinship (2010). She has edited several collections, including Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing (Palgrave, 2023).

• 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 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 Podnieks, “We need to have our babies on our side of the line”: Indigenous Parenting, Intergenerational Trauma, and Familial Power in Lee Maracle’s Daughters are Forever and Katherena Vermette’s The Strangers.- 30.    Kyoung-suk Sung, Abuse, Neglect, and Family Redefinition in East Asian Films: A Comparative Study of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Japanese Films and Ji-won Lee’s South Korean Film Miss Baek.- 31.    Yue Chen, Father-Son Discordance and Problematic Reconciliation in Contemporary Chinese Films.- 32.    Sarah Arnold, Mothering as the Intersection of Class, Care and the Corporeal: Representing the Maternal in Contemporary Irish Film and Television Drama.- 33.    Leigh Sparks, From Mothers of Bedford to Apart: How Independent Documentary Films Tell Stories of Justice-Impacted Mothers and Their Children.- 34.    Shauna Wilton, The Problem with Parenting in the British Crime Procedural: Mothers as TV Detectives.- 35.    Jacqui Getfield, Riddims and Schisms: Social Construction of Motherhood in Jamaican Dancehall and Reggae Music.- 36.    Katie Garner, How Extramarital Affairs in Contemporary Nanny Novels Reflect Neoliberal Ideals in Contemporary Parenting: A Post-Freudian Analysis.- 37.    Suruchi Thapar-Björkert and Johanna Gondouin, India’s Motherless Motherland and Dystopian Parenting in Manish Jha’s Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women.- 38.    Gabriele Griffin, Sequestration: Visions of a Motherless World in Dystopic Graphic Novels.- 39.   Berit Åström and Jenny Bonnevier, Selfless Servers, Weapons in Waiting: Androids Parenting Human Children in Raised by Wolves and I am Mother.

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