Jo Littler

Jo Littler is Reader in the Sociology Department and Director of the new Gender and Sexualities Research Centre at City, University of London. @littler_jo https://www.city.ac.uk/about/schools/arts-soc

What the rise of ‘mothers behaving badly’ in the media reveals – and what it obscures

New comedies portray overworked mothers going wild. It’s liberating, but structural causes for their exhaustion need the spotlight too.

By Jo Littler

/ 29 Aug 2019

What the rise of ‘mothers behaving badly’ in the media reveals – and what it obscures