{"product_id":"mothering-through-precarity-9780822363361","title":"Mothering through Precarity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulie A. Wilson and Emily Chivers Yochim explore how working- and middle-class mothers of young children negotiate difficulties of holding a family together during difficulties such as job loss, health scares, and weakening social services through their everyday engagement with digital media.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"... women, with children or without, have a lot to gain from this smart, insightful work. It outlines a nagging problem so specific I lacked a clear definition of it before I started reading.... It’s an idea rooted directly in our dominant political ideology, one that many cannot name: neoliberalism.\" -- Amani Newton * Pittsburgh City Paper *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMothering through Precarity\u003c\/i\u003e ... richly illustrates what a theoretically, conceptually and emotionally confused and paradoxical situation women are in with respect to an online world that offers family-enhancing information and advice, communicative solace and flexible income-earning opportunities, but also exploits their ongoing efforts at maintaining a positive family environment by creating new anxieties and offering meagre financial returns.... After reading this book, it is not so difficult to understand why some women in the Rust Belt voted for Donald Trump’s media-fuelled promises of a better future.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- E. Stina Lyon * Times Higher Education *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMothering through Precarity\u003c\/i\u003e is at its best when it demonstrates digital media as a crucial mechanism by which mothers daily discipline themselves to feel ever more optimistic and upbeat in spite of the pervasive uncertainty they feel.... Suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses at the intersection of family, gender, and media, we recommend this book, and in particular chapter three and the Conclusion, for sections highlighting the use of digital media in families.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Elissa Zeno and Allison J. Pugh * Gender \u0026amp; Society *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMothering Through Precarity \u003c\/i\u003eis a critical contribution to the study of . . . the affective and psychic life of neoliberalism. . . . With genuine empathy and care for their interviewees, Wilson and Chivers Yochim show how mothers are caught up in the forces of precarization that threaten their families, and how they turn to the digital mamasphere to resist the turbulences of advanced neoliberalism.\" -- Shani Orgad * Journal of Communication Inquiry *\u003cbr\u003e\"This rich approach to the topic and subjects of inquiry makes this book valuable to feminist media and cultural studies’ scholars, motherhood studies, and those with an interest in the gendered aspects of new media and affect theory. . . . An original and important scholarly contribution on gendered digital culture and the growing mamasphere.\" -- Tisha Dejmanee * International Journal of Communication *\u003cbr\u003e\"A well-written and well-argued book about modern motherhood. . . both thought-provoking and deeply saddening. . . . This book is recommended for scholars of motherhood, contemporary gender performance, neoliberalism, and digital media consumption.\" -- Saralyn McKinnon-Crowley * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. The Digital Mundane: Mothering, Media, and Precarity  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Mother Loads: Why \"Good\" Mothers Are Anxious  31\u003cbr\u003e 2. Mamapreneurialism: Family Appreciation in the Digital Mundane  65\u003cbr\u003e 3. Digital Entanglements: Staying Happy in the Mamasphere  103\u003cbr\u003e 4. Individualized Solidarities: Privatizing Happiness Together  137\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Socializing Happiness (or, Why We Wrote an Unhappy Book)  169\u003cbr\u003e Afterword. Packets and Pockets  185\u003cbr\u003e Notes  189\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  205\u003cbr\u003e Index  213","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406101356887,"sku":"9780822363361","price":90.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822363361.jpg?v=1730494530","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mothering-through-precarity-9780822363361","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}