{"id":35899,"date":"2019-02-13T16:02:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T21:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/?post_type=profile&p=35899"},"modified":"2026-07-07T07:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:54:30","slug":"d-lynn-obrien-hallstein","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/profile\/d-lynn-obrien-hallstein\/","title":{"rendered":"D. Lynn O\u2019Brien Hallstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teaching Interests<\/h3>\n

<\/span>Rhetoric, communication, and gender studies<\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/h3>\n

<\/span>Rhetoric, cultural studies, feminist theory, and contemporary understandings of motherhood and mothering<\/p>\n

Selected Publications<\/h3>\n

Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

Critical Perspectives on Wives: Roles, Representations, Identities Work.<\/i>\u00a0Eds. D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein and Rebecca Bromwich. Toronto: Demeter Press, 2019.<\/p>\n

Bikini-Ready<\/em> Moms:Celebrity\u00a0Profiles, Motherhood, and\u00a0the Body.<\/em><\/i>SUNY Press, 2015.\u00a0Awarded<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender\u2019s 2016 Outstanding Single-Authored Book of the Year.<\/p>\n

Academic Motherhood in a Post-Second Wave Context: Challenges, Strategies, and Possibilities<\/i>. <\/i>Eds. D. Lynn O\u2019Brien Hallstein and Andrea O\u2019Reilly. Toronto: Demeter Press, 2012.<\/p>\n

White Feminism and Contemporary Maternity:\u00a0 Purging Matrophobia<\/em>. Palgrave Press, March 2010.<\/p>\n

Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice:\u00a0 Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction<\/em>. Eds. Sara Hayden and D. Lynn O\u2019Brien Hallstein. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"bikinireadymoms\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"academic<\/a><\/td>\n\"white-feminists-and-contemporary-maternity\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"contemplating-maternity\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n

Edited special issue<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>of Women\u2019s Studies in Communication<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>on \u201cMothering Rhetorics.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe Gives Birth, She\u2019s Wearing a Bikini: Mobilizing the Post-Pregnant Celebrity Mom Body to Manage the Post-Second Wave Crisis in Femininity.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Women\u2019s Studies in Communication<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>34.2 (November 2011):\u00a0 1-27.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Intriguing History and Curious Silences of Woman Born:\u00a0 Rereading Rich Rhetorically to Better Understand the Contemporary Context.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0<\/span>National Women\u2019s Studies Journal<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>22.1 (2010): 18-41.<\/p>\n

\u201cPublic Choices, Private Control:\u00a0 How Mediated Mom Labels Work Rhetorically to Dismantle the Politics of Choice and White Second Wave Feminist Successes. Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice:\u00a0 Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction.<\/em>\u201d Eds. Sara Hayden and D. Lynn O\u2019Brien Hallstein.\u00a0 Lanham, MD:\u00a0<\/span>Lexington Books<\/em>, 2010: 5-26.<\/p>\n

\u201cSilences and Choices:\u00a0 The Legacies of White Second Wave Feminism in the New Professoriate.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Women\u2019s Studies in Communication<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>31.2 (Summer 2008): 143-150.<\/p>\n

Other Professional Activity and\/or Awards<\/h3>\n

Teaches class on Cultural Constructions of Motherhood,\u00a0<\/span>profiled in BU Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Faculty member\u00a0<\/span><\/a>of\u00a0Boston University\u2019s College of Arts & Sciences \u201cWomen\u2019s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program\u201d<\/p>\n

Outstanding Book Award for an edited volume from the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13125,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38284,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35899\/revisions\/38284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}