Media work, mothers and motherhood : negotiating the international audio-visual industry / edited by Susan Liddy and Anne O'Brien.

Motherhood and media work : an introduction / Susan Liddy & Anne O' Brien -- Inequality, invisibility and inflexibility : mothers and carers navigating careers in the Australian screen industry / Sheree K. Gregory & Deb Verhoeven -- Managing Wollstonecraft's dilemma : matriarchs in the Nigerian broadcast news media and the politics of child care / Ganiyat Tijani-Adenle -- Representing and experiencing motherhood : on and off screen in Swedish film / Maria Jansson & Louise Wallenberg -- The mother of a famous child : the media representation of Shirley Temple's "Mother" in Hollywood, 1934-1940 / Tsz Lam Ngai -- Negotiating motherhood in the Colombian audio-visual industry : a matter of capital / Alejandra Castano-Echeverri & Andrés Correa-González -- The future of Muslim women behind-the-scenes of the Malaysian TV industry / Nur Kareelawati Abd Karim -- British television production and women without children : exclusionary practice in the turn to care / Rowan Aust -- The operation of maternal stigma in the UK creative and cultural industries / Tamsyn Dent -- Mothers' subjective experiences of negotiating caring responsibilities with work in the Scottish film and television industries / Susan Berridge -- Bollywood Mothers : work life imbalance / Viraj Suparsad -- The gendered practice of the TV opt-out / Perelandra Beedles -- Negotiating motherhood : the search for solutions / Susan Liddy & Anne O' Brien.

"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, and the work of media production and maternal care-giving. Conflicting ideas about, and expectations of, mothers are untangled in the context of the working world of radio, film, television and creative media industries. The book teases out commonalities between experiences that are evident across a number of countries, from Hollywood to Bollywood, as well as examining the differences between class, religious, maternal status and cultural frameworks that surround working mothers in various nation states. It also offers some possibilities for ways forward that can improve the lives of women workers who are also mothers. A timely and valuable contribution to international debates on equality, mothers and motherhood in audio visual industries, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of media, communication, cultural studies and gender, programmes engaged with work inequalities and motherhood studies, as well as activists, funders, policy makers and practitioners"-- Provided by publisher.

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