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gender and femininity: motherhood  

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  • While feminists have long championed women's professional ambitions and sexual desires, critics contend that mainstream media often depict moral-ethical conflicts between work, sex, and mothering. The result has been to create media imagery and narratives that promote a nostalgic return to, and sentimentalizing of, the nurturing qualities of women. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender in Media; Gender and Femininity: Motherhood]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-CTLLW75G-1

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