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Author Wilson, Julie A., 1975- author.

Title Mothering through precarity : women's work and digital media / Julie A. Wilson and Emily Chivers Yochim
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 216 pages)
Series Online access with subscription: Duke University Press
Contents Mother loads : why "good" mothers are anxious -- Mamapreneurialism : family appreciation in the digital mundane -- Digital entanglements : staying happy in the mamasphere -- Individualized solidarities : privatizing happiness together -- Conclusion: Socializing happiness (or, why we wrote an unhappy book)
Summary Julie 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 23, 2017)
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Subject Motherhood -- Economic aspects -- United States
Mothers -- United States -- Social conditions
Nuclear families -- Political aspects -- United States
Digital media -- Social aspects
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
Digital media -- Social aspects
Motherhood -- Economic aspects
Mothers -- Social conditions
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Yochim, Emily Chivers, author.
LC no. 2016047429
ISBN 9780822373193
082237319X