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“Fake Smile. Everything is under Control.”: The Flawless Performance of Motherhood

Jocelyn M. DeGroota Jocelyn M. DeGroot is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.Correspondence[email protected]
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Tennley A. Vikb Tennley A. Vik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Pages 42-60 | Published online: 13 Oct 2019

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Claudia Wegener, Friederike Jage-D’Aprile & Lisa Plumeier. (2023) Motherhood in social media: phenomena and consequences of the professionalization of mothers and their media (self-)representation. Feminist Media Studies 23:7, pages 3222-3238.
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Molly K. Tate. (2023) The Impact of Social Comparison via Social Media on Maternal Mental Health, within the Context of the Intensive Mothering Ideology: A Scoping Review of the Literature. Issues in Mental Health Nursing 0:0, pages 1-17.
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Jocelyn M. DeGroot. (2023) “You Think This is Hard? Just Wait…”: Memorable Messages in Motherhood. Western Journal of Communication 0:0, pages 1-18.
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Sarah Symonds LeBlanc, Lindsay M. Butcher, Rachel P. Mitchell, Julianna Russel & Jessi Navarro. (2023) No One Ever Talked About…”:The Postpartum Counter-Narrative to Society’s Master Narrative on New Mothering. Southern Communication Journal 88:3, pages 195-210.
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Lisa J. van Raalte, Tricia J. Burke, Jocelyn M. DeGroot & Abigail J. Mellow. (2023) Examining Changes in Affection and “Feeling Touched Out” after the Birth of a Child. Journal of Family Communication 23:1, pages 52-62.
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Heather M. Stassen, Tennley A. Vik, Heather J. Carmack & Jocelyn M. DeGroot. (2023) The Burdened Burdensome Woman: A Poststructural Feminist Analysis of Discussions of The New York Times’ Homeschooling Gender (Dis)Parity Article. Southern Communication Journal 88:1, pages 30-39.
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Tennley Vik, Jocelyn M. DeGroot & Jennifer L. Lanterman. (2022) Creating and Using Facebook Groups for Collaborative (Auto)ethnography and Ethnographic Sensemaking. Women's Studies in Communication 45:1, pages 10-25.
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