Lynn O'Brien Hallstein is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Boston University and the author of White Feminists and Contemporary Maternity: Purging Matrophobia.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: New and Changing Celebrity Mom Profiles: Theoretical Grounding and Interdisciplinary Rhetorical Approach and Method

1. Contemporary Motherhood at the Epicenter of Intersecting Cultural Changes: The Neoliberal and Post-Second Wave Turns

2. Step One-Becoming First-Time Mothers: Slender-Pregnant Celebrity Mom Profiles

3. Step Two-Being Bikini-Ready Moms: Postpartum Celebrity Mom Profiles

4. Consequences, Rules, and Conclusions about Bikini-Ready Moms

5. Resisting Being Bikini-Ready Moms: Five Strategies of Resistance

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