Hallstein Receives Outstanding Book Award for Bikini-Ready Moms
Lynn O’Brien Hallstein
, Boston University College of General Studies associate professor of rhetoric, received the 2016 Outstanding Book Award at the 39th annual conference of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language & Gender. The conference was held from October 13th – 16th in Chicago, Illinois.
Hallstein received this award for her recent book, Bikini-Ready Moms: Celebrity Profiles, Motherhood, and the Body (SUNY Press, 2015). The book discusses common requirements of good motherhood and the pressure to become bikini-ready immediately postpartum. Hallstein writes that she analyzes celebrity mom profiles and the ways that they encourage mothers to engage in body work as the solution for work-life struggles. The book helps readers understand the pressures mothers face to conform to intense mothering expectations.
OSCLG seeks to provide a forum for professional discussion, presentation of research and demonstration of creative projects in the areas of communication, language and gender. The organization also wishes to recognize those working in this field for their scholarship, teaching and mentoring, and creative activity. The OSCLG Book Award honors “an outstanding book concerned with communication, language and gender.”
Hallstein’s work has been covered on the CGS website and in BU Today.