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

"Bikini-Ready Moms contributes a great deal to understanding both the obsession with celebrity mom profiles and the pressure that mothers are under to conform to and perform intensive mothering as it shifts into another gear to control women." — Fiona Joy Green, author of Practicing Feminist Mothering

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: New and Changing Celebrity Mom Profiles: Theoretical Grounding and Interdisciplinary Rhetorical Approach and Method1. Contemporary Motherhood at the Epicenter of Intersecting Cultural Changes: The Neoliberal and Post-Second Wave Turns2. Step One—Becoming First-Time Mothers: Slender-Pregnant Celebrity Mom Profiles3. Step Two—Being Bikini-Ready Moms: Postpartum Celebrity Mom Profiles4. Consequences, Rules, and Conclusions about Bikini-Ready Moms5. Resisting Being Bikini-Ready Moms: Five Strategies of ResistanceNotesWorks CitedIndex

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

"Bikini-Ready Moms contributes a great deal to understanding both the obsession with celebrity mom profiles and the pressure that mothers are under to conform to and perform intensive mothering as it shifts into another gear to control women." — Fiona Joy Green, author of Practicing Feminist Mothering

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: New and Changing Celebrity Mom Profiles: Theoretical Grounding and Interdisciplinary Rhetorical Approach and Method1. Contemporary Motherhood at the Epicenter of Intersecting Cultural Changes: The Neoliberal and Post-Second Wave Turns2. Step One—Becoming First-Time Mothers: Slender-Pregnant Celebrity Mom Profiles3. Step Two—Being Bikini-Ready Moms: Postpartum Celebrity Mom Profiles4. Consequences, Rules, and Conclusions about Bikini-Ready Moms5. Resisting Being Bikini-Ready Moms: Five Strategies of ResistanceNotesWorks CitedIndex

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

"Bikini-Ready Moms contributes a great deal to understanding both the obsession with celebrity mom profiles and the pressure that mothers are under to conform to and perform intensive mothering as it shifts into another gear to control women." — Fiona Joy Green, author of Practicing Feminist Mothering

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: New and Changing Celebrity Mom Profiles: Theoretical Grounding and Interdisciplinary Rhetorical Approach and Method1. Contemporary Motherhood at the Epicenter of Intersecting Cultural Changes: The Neoliberal and Post-Second Wave Turns2. Step One—Becoming First-Time Mothers: Slender-Pregnant Celebrity Mom Profiles3. Step Two—Being Bikini-Ready Moms: Postpartum Celebrity Mom Profiles4. Consequences, Rules, and Conclusions about Bikini-Ready Moms5. Resisting Being Bikini-Ready Moms: Five Strategies of ResistanceNotesWorks CitedIndex