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Drawing on radical feminist scholarship, it identifies three recurring themes in the portrayal of motherhood: duty, status, and ideal. The analysis argues that the series presents motherhood as a non-avoidable responsibility while granting women constrained power within the private sphere and reinforcing a ‘good’ versus ‘bad’ mother dichotomy. Although the depiction can be critical, it mainly shows punitive consequences rather than challenging the construction itself.","ORIGINAL ARTICLE   \nRepresentation of Motherhood in Game of Thrones  \nAnn-Kathrin Ruf  \nM.A. Gender, Globalisation, and Rights  \nNational University of Ireland, Galway  \nAbstract The social and cultural construction of motherhood places countless rules and regulations upon women for both those who have children and those who do not.  \nThis article analyses how motherhood is portrayed in the popular TV series Game of Thrones (GoT) (HBO, 2011-2019) . Using the radical feminist texts Of Woman Born:  \nMotherhood as Experience and Institution (Rich, 1986) and Woman’s Work: The Housewife, Past and Present (Oakley, 1974), the article identifies three themes in the portrayal of motherhood: motherhood as duty, status, and ideal. GoT portrays motherhood as a duty that cannot, and should not, be evaded, but that simultaneously grants women unique power in the private sphere, all the while upholding the dichotomy of ‘good’ and ‘bad’mothers. Ultimately, the portrayal of motherhood in GoT is multifaceted and at times critical of its social and cultural construction. But by depicting the punitive consequences of resistance, the series does not go far enough to challenge the construction itself.  \nKeywords  \nradical feminist theory, motherhood, representation, social constructionism, Game of Thrones  \nIntroduction  \nRadical feminism strives to eradicate patriarchy: the unequal power structures in society that oppress women. The theory’s main goal, thus, is to identify, understand, critique, and ultimately abolish the patriarchal social and cultural constructions designed to keep women submissive and men dominant. These structures are situated and operate in both the public and private sphere. Examples include rape culture (Brownmiller, 1975) and the beauty industry (Wolf, 1990), as well as the constructions of sexuality (MacKinnon, 1989) and motherhood (Oakley, 1974; Rich, 1986) . The social construction of motherhood is the focus of this article.  \nAt its core, social constructionism poses that knowledge, and many aspects of the world, are only real because they exist through social agreement (Burr, 1998). Any identity is linked to expected ways of behaviour, they are regularly reiterated and reinforced to maintain the identity’s meaning. Actors involved in these processes are numerous, among them parents, teachers, peers, and mass media (Gonzalez-Mena, 2014) . How motherhood is portrayed in fiction is an important contribution to the understanding of motherhood in reality,  \n…not because such representations are an accurate reflection of reality but because they have the power and scope to foreground culturally accepted familial relations, define sexual normsand provide ‘common sense’ understandings about motherhood and maternal behaviour for the contemporary audience. (Feasey, 2012: 9)  \nTo examine the understanding of motherhood in reality, this paper will analyse how it is portrayed in the popular TV series Game of Thrones (HBO, 2011-2019) by David Benioffand D.B. Weiss. I selected Game of Thrones for its iconic status in modern pop culture. The series has won 59 Emmys and countless other awards and drew in roughly 33 million viewers in its final season. Set on the fictional continents Westeros and Essos, the series follows several noble families as they struggle for power and influence in the world. One of these families is House Lannister, whose daughter Cersei is married to King Robert Baratheon. Together, they have three children—officially. In truth, the children are the result of Cersei’s near life-long incestuous affair with her twin brother Jaime. Throughout the wars, other noble houses’ schemes, and Cersei’s own unwise acts, eventually claim her children’s lives; she descends further and further into madness and ultimately dies alongside her life-long partner/brother.  \nDrawing from key radical feminist texts on the construction of motherhood, I will discuss how the portrayal of Cersei is reflective of, and possibly influences, ","cbCair4HaKparHGh","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCair4HaKparHGh","pdf",415553,1,13,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Radical feminism and social constructionism\n# Research design and thematic analysis\n## Thematic content analysis approach\n## Three derived themes\n# Motherhood in radical feminist discourse\n## Key texts and conceptual framing\n# Portrayal of motherhood in Game of Thrones\n## Cersei Lannister as a case focus\n# Conclusion","[{\"question\":\"What is the main focus of the article?\",\"answer\":\"The article analyzes how motherhood is portrayed in Game of Thrones and how that portrayal reflects social and cultural constructions of motherhood in Western cultures.\"},{\"question\":\"Which radical feminist texts does the article use?\",\"answer\":\"The analysis draws mainly on Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution and Diana Oakley’s Woman’s Work: The Housewife, Past and Present.\"},{\"question\":\"What three themes does the article identify in Game of Thrones’ portrayal of motherhood?\",\"answer\":\"The article identifies motherhood as duty, as status, and as ideal.\"}]","Representation of Motherhood in Game of Thrones - 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