Availability: In Stock

Mothering through Precarity Women’s Work and Digital Media

SKU: 9780822373193

Original price was: $31.95.Current price is: $9.58.

Access Mothering through Precarity Women’s Work and Digital Media Now. Discount up to 90%

Additional information

Full Title

Mothering through Precarity Women\'s Work and Digital Media

Author(s)

Julie A. Wilson, Emily Chivers Yochim

Edition
ISBN

9780822373193, 9780822363477, 9780822363361

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

In Mothering through Precarity Julie A. Wilson and Emily Chivers Yochim explore how working- and middle-class mothers negotiate the difficulties of twenty-first-century mothering through their everyday engagement with digital media. From Facebook and Pinterest to couponing, health, and parenting websites, the women Wilson and Yochim study rely upon online resources and communities for material and emotional support. Feeling responsible for their family’s economic security, these women often become “mamapreneurs,” running side businesses out of their homes. They also feel the need to provide for their family’s happiness, making successful mothering dependent upon economic and emotional labor. Questioning these standards of motherhood, Wilson and Yochim demonstrate that mothers’ work is inseparable from digital media as it provides them the means for sustaining their families through such difficulties as health scares, underfunded schools, a weakening social safety net, and job losses.