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Bad Mothers

by Clelia Castellano

pp. 262-271 Issue 8 (4,2) – July-December 2017 ISSN (online): 2539/2239 ISSN (print): 2389-8232 DOI: 10.17450/170217

Abstract

The Western world has been developing for a long time, both in its Christian and in its secular dimension, an ideal stereotyped representation of “The Devoted Mother”. Feminism and the great social, economical, legal, and cultural changes have modified those stereotypes, revealing unexpected mechanisms in constructing and deconstructing femininity in its mothering version

Keywords

media, Law, Women, childhood, motherhood
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