About Lynn O’Brien Dr. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Boston University and the author of White Feminists and Contemporary Maternity: Purging Matrophobia and Bikini-Ready Moms Celebrity Profiles, Motherhood, and the Body. Books by Lynn O’Brien Critical Perspectives on Wives Roles, Representations, Identities, Work edited by Lynn O’Brien & Rebecca Bromwic