Media Work, Mothers and Motherhood

This interdisciplinary and international volume offers an innovative and critical exploration of the impact of motherhood on the engagement of women in media and creative industries across the globe. Diverse contributions critically engage with the intersections and overlap between the social categories of worker and mother.

Auteur

Susan Liddy lectures in the Department of Media and Communication Studies in MIC, University of Limerick. Her recent work includes: Women in the Irish Film Industry: Stories and Storytellers (ed.) (2020) and Women in the International Film Industry: Policy Practice and Power (ed.) (2020). She is Chair of Women in Film and Television Ireland, a board member of Women in Film and Television International, the Writers Guild of Ireland and Raising Films Ireland. She is founder and co-director of Catalyst International Film Festival, Limerick.

Anne O' Brien is Associate Professor with the Department of Media Studies at Maynooth University. She has published on the representation of women in radio and television, on women workers in creative industries and examined why women leave careers in screen production. Her most recent book explores Women, Inequality and Media Work (2019).

Contenu

Chapter 1: Motherhood and Media Work: an introduction * Susan Liddy & Anne O' Brien

• Part 1 Who Cares in Screen Production?

Chapter 2: Inequality, Invisibility and Inflexibility: Mothers and Carers Navigating Careers in the Australian Screen Industry * Sheree K. Gregory & Deb Verhoeven

• Chapter 3 Managing Wollstonecraft's Dilemma: Matriarchs in the Nigerian Broadcast News Media and the Politics of Child Care * Ganiyat Tijani-Adenle

Chapter 4: Representing and Experiencing Motherhood - On and Off Screen in Swedish Film * Maria Jansson & Louise Wallenberg

• Chapter 5: The Mother of a Famous Child: The Media Representation of Shirley Temple's "Mother" in Hollywood, 1934-1940
  ***Tsz Lam Ngai

• Part 2 Intersectionality and Media Mothers

Chapter 6: Negotiating motherhood in the Colombian Audio-Visual Industry: a matter of capital. * Alejandra Castano-Echeverri & Andrés

Correa-González

• Chapter 7: The Future of Muslim Women Behind-the-Scenes of the Malaysian TV Industry * Nur Kareelawati Abd Karim

• Chapter 8: British television production and women without children: exclusionary practice in the turn to care * Rowan Aust

Part 3 Stigma, subjectivity and celebrity

Chapter 9: The operation of maternal stigma in the UK creative and cultural industries * Tamsyn Dent

• Chapter 10: Mothers' subjective experiences of negotiating caring responsibilities with work in the Scottish film and television industries * Susan Berridge

Chapter 11: Bollywood Mothers: work life imbalance * Viraj Suparsad

• Part 4 Solutions for better futures

Chapter 12: The Gendered Practice of The TV Opt-Out

*Perelandra Beedles

• Chapter 13: Negotiating Motherhood: the search for solutions * Susan Liddy & Anne O' Brien *