Post-industrial Offspring: Iconographies of Postmodern Motherhood and Child-Rearing in Chick Lit. A Perusal of Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic & Baby.
Post-industrial Offspring: Iconographies of Postmodern Motherhood and Child-Rearing in Chick Lit. A Perusal of Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic & Baby.
Author(s): Anemona AlbSubject(s): Gender Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Editura Universitatii din Oradea
Keywords: modernism; postmodernism; post-Fordism; iconographies of motherhood; consumerism;Sophie Kinsella;
Summary/Abstract: It is the main assumption of this paper that traditional iconographies of womanhood have been supplanted by novel, post-Fordist ones; more specifically, the image of motherhood of yore has now been usurped by the brand-obsessed pregnant woman, indeed a fashionista rather interested in succumbing to peer-pressure as regards fashion during pregnancy than in the real significance of child-bearing.
Journal: Confluenţe. Texts and Contexts Reloaded
- Issue Year: 2013
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 108-114
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English