{"product_id":"bikini-ready-moms-lynn-obrien-hallstein-9781438459011","title":"Bikini-Ready Moms: Celebrity Profiles, Motherhood, and the Body","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArgues that expectations for mothering include a new core principle of \"body work.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2016 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe requirements of \"good\" motherhood used to primarily involve the care of children, but now contemporary mothers are also pressured to become bikini-ready immediately postpartum. Lynn O'Brien Hallstein analyzes celebrity mom profiles to determine the various ways that they encourage all mothers to engage in body work as the energizing solution to solve any work-life balance struggles they might experience. \u003ci\u003eBikini-Ready Moms\u003c\/i\u003e also considers the ways that maternal body work erases any evidence of mothers' contributions both at home and in professional contexts. O'Brien Hallstein theorizes possible ways to fuel a necessary mothers' revolution, while also pointing to initial strategies of resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lynn O'Brien Hallstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438459017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438459011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Lynn O'Brien Hallstein","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48444871475455,"sku":"9781438459011","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f5f25d08-bf81-4c8a-9461-585cd66518b5.jpg?v=1777215115","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bikini-ready-moms-lynn-obrien-hallstein-9781438459011","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}