The Representation of Mothers in Popular Culture

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201230.009How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Bad moms, Good moms, Motherhood, Feminine agency, Subjectivity

Abstract

This article’s impetus was the representations of motherhood in the film entitled Bad Moms. It elaborates how the film problematized the construction of good motherhood or what was considered to constitute good mothers. By using the perspective of feminist cultural studies, the article unfolds the issue and contends that the film presented the complexity of the construction of motherhood as well as the existing perceptions and assumptions surrounding motherhood. It argues that the film resisted the binary notion of “good moms” and “bad moms” and offered a notion that ideal mothers were not the ever-present ones, but rather those who played multiple roles as nurturer, friends, and caregivers without really losing their own identity and subjectivity as women. The film showed that ideal mothers provided enough space for their children to learn and to mature just as the mothers also enable themselves to maintain their agency and subjectivity.

Copyright

© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Aquarini Priyatna
AU  - Lina Meilinawati Rahayu
AU  - Mega Subekti
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/31
TI  - The Representation of Mothers in Popular Culture
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Folklore, Language, Education and Exhibition (ICOFLEX 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 44
EP  - 46
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201230.009
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201230.009
ID  - Priyatna2020
ER  -