title: Mediated Moms: Contemporary Challenges to the Motherhood Myth
author: Heather L. Hundley
description: The essays in this volume enrich and elucidate the complexities and contradictory tensions of motherhood, and the representations of it in this contemporary moment. The contributors to this book demonstrate that motherhood is neither inimical nor antithetical to possibilities for transgression. Rather, motherhood as an ideological construction is a multidimensional, paradoxical site of contestation and struggle. Contributors to this book demonstrate that cautious optimism is warranted about the potentially liberatory possibilities of mediated transgressive mothering.<br /> Susan Owen, Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies, University of Puget Sound)<br /><br /> Heather L. Hundley and Sara E. Hayden have done a superb job bringing together a set of essays that analyze and enlarge our understanding of the motherhood myth. As a result, <i>Mediated Moms</i> provides a more complex understanding of how the institution of motherhood is and continues to be culturally constructed, while contributors provide insightful analyses that move beyond the good-bad mothering binary to reveal how the mediated mothers explored sometimes defy, challenge, talk back to, and/or negotiate institutionalized motherhood. Thus, this book is a must-read for any scholar interested in learning how and why we should all appreciate the important roles bad mothers play in the always-evolving institution of motherhood.<br /> (D. Lynn OBrien Hallstein, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Boston University)<br /><br />The essays in this volume enrich and elucidate the complexities and contradictory tensions of motherhood, and the representations of it in this contemporary moment. The contributors to this book demonstrate that motherhood is neither inimical nor antithetical to possibilities for transgression. Rather, motherhood as an ideological construction is a multidimensional, paradoxical site of contestation and struggle. Contributors to this book demonstrate that cautious optimism is warranted about the potentially liberatory possibilities of mediated transgressive mothering.<br /> Susan Owen, Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies, University of Puget Sound)<br /> Heather L. Hundley and Sara E. Hayden have done a superb job bringing together a set of essays that analyze and enlarge our understanding of the motherhood myth. As a result, <i>Mediated Moms</i> provides a more complex understanding of how the institution of motherhood is and continues to be culturally constructed, while contributors provide insightful analyses that move beyond the good-bad mothering binary to reveal how the mediated mothers explored sometimes defy, challenge, talk back to, and/or negotiate institutionalized motherhood. Thus, this book is a must-read for any scholar interested in learning how and why we should all appreciate the important roles bad mothers play in the always-evolving institution of motherhood.<br /> (D. Lynn OBrien Hallstein, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Boston University)
zlib_text: Table	of	Contents
  	
  Praise
  Also	by	Jasmin	Lee	Cori,	MS,	LPC
  Title	Page
  Dedication
  Introduction
  	
  Chapter	1.	-	Mothering
  Mother	as	the	tree	of	life
  Mommy	is	what	we	are	made	of
  Who	can	mother?
  The	good-enough	mother
  Good	Mother	messages
  What	happens	when	Good	Mother	messages	are	absent?
  What	does	it	mean	to	be	undermothered?
  	
  Chapter	2.	-	The	Many	Faces	of	the	Good	Mother
  Mother	as	Source
  Mother	as	Place	of	Attachment
  Mother	as	First	Responder
  Mother	as	Modulator
  Mother	as	Nurturer
  Mother	as	Mirror
  Mother	as	Cheerleader
  Mother	as	Mentor
  Mother	as	Protector
  Mother	as	Home	Base
  	
  Chapter	3.	-	Attachment:	Our	First	Foundation
  How	do	we	become	attached,	and	what	is	secure	attachment?
  Why	is	attachment	so	important?
  How	can	I	know	if	I	was	securely	attached	to	my	mother?
  What	if	I	wasn’t	securely	attached?	How	would	that	look?
  
  What	is	attachment-related	trauma?
  Maybe	I	wasn’t	securely	attached	to	my	mother,	but	is	it	really	fair	to	hold
  ...
  Can	I	still	develop	secure	attachments	if	I’ve	on