Video Hot Mom

[Marcos Rico]

Shen Yifei talks about the contrast in the media between the traditional image of a Chinese mothers and a new modern Hot mom. It mentions how this hot mom concept started to appear in the media after 2003, and has gained more traction ever since. The traditional image of a Chinese Mother is based on the rural women, while the image of the hot mom is based on the middle class urban women. Chinese media has associated the image of the hot mom with feminism. The speaker mentions how it is mostly on appearence a success of feminism, because the chinese society is still a patriarch society were women are still expected to fullfill the same duties as a traditional “good” chinese mother. But is is now expected that they should look “pretty” as a hot mom.