This interdisciplinary and international volume offers an innovative and critical exploration of the impact of motherhood on the engagement of women in media and creative industries across the globe. Diverse contributions critically engage with the intersections and overlap between the social categories of worker and mother.

1. Motherhood and Media Work: an introduction Part 1: Who Cares in Screen Production? 2. Inequality, Invisibility and Inflexibility: Mothers and Carers Navigating Careers in the Australian Screen Industry 3. Managing Wollstonecraft's Dilemma: Matriarchs in the Nigerian Broadcast News Media and the Politics of Child Care 4. Representing and Experiencing Motherhood - On and Off Screen in Swedish Film 5. The Mother of a Famous Child: The Media Representation of Shirley Temple's "Mother" in Hollywood, 1934-1940 Part 2: Intersectionality and Media Mothers 6. Negotiating motherhood in the Colombian Audio-Visual Industry: a matter of capital 7. The Future of Muslim Women Behind-the-Scenes of the Malaysian TV Industry 8. British television production and women without children: exclusionary practice in the turn to care Part 3: Stigma, subjectivity and celebrity 9. The operation of maternal stigma in the UK creative and cultural industries 10. Mothers' subjective experiences of negotiating caring responsibilities with work in the Scottish film and television industries 11. Bollywood Mothers: work life imbalance Part 4: Solutions for better futures 12. The Gendered Practice of The TV Opt-Out 13. Negotiating Motherhood: the search for solutions