Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century

by Hannah Zeavin

An essential history for understanding how we mother now, and how motherhood itself became a medium--winner of the Brooke Hindle Award from the Society for the History of Technology. From the nursery to the prison, from the clinic to the commune, Mother Media tells the story of how our contemporary understanding of what a mother is came to be and how understandings of "bad" mothering formed our contemporary panics about "bad" media. In this book,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262049554
• ISBN13: 9780262049559
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 312 Pages