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In-Class Activities

Source 1 -“Am I a Better Mother Than You?”: Media and 21st-Century Motherhood in the Context of the Social Comparison Theory

To do on your own: Open source 1 - you won't be able to read the whole thing, but take a few minutes to read the abstract, and look at the methods section. What did the authors do to gather evidence for their research? We will discuss this as a class. Think also about what kind of source this is. Submit these questions https://forms.gle/p3VmjAVLDJ3Z5NYf7 (~ 5 minutes).

Source 2 - A Maternal Heart: Angelina Jolie, choices of maternity, and hegemonic femininity in People magazine

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