Why Can't Pop Culture Get Single Moms Right?
Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club is a radical and compassionate portrait, but the film, like others before it, still follows certain formulas about how single women are expected to succeed.
Elizabeth Bruno
Elizabeth Bruno is a doctoral student in English at the University of Oregon. Her essay “Her Cape Is at the Cleaners: Searching for Single Motherhood in a Culture of Self-Sufficiency” is forthcoming in the collection Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood Across Cultural Differences. She writes regularly at kidSideration.
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