{"product_id":"mother-media-hot-and-cool-parenting-in-the-twentieth-century-hardcover","title":"Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHannah Zeavin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the nursery to the prison, from the clinic to the commune, \u003ci\u003eMother Media\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of how we arrived at our contemporary understanding of what a mother is and how understandings of \"bad\" mothering formed our contemporary panics about \"bad\" media. In this book, leading historian of psychology Hannah Zeavin examines twentieth-century pediatric, psychological, educational, industrial, and economic norms around mediated mothering and technologized parenting. The book charts the crisis of the family across the twentieth century and the many ingenious attempts to remediate nursemaid and mother via speculative technologies and screen media. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGrowing out of her previous award-winning book \u003ci\u003eThe Distance Cure\u003c\/i\u003e, which considered technologized care, the book lays bare the contradictions of techno-parenting and how it relates to conceptions of \"maternal fitness,\" medical redlining, and surveillance of children, parents, and other caregivers. The author offers narratives of parenting in its extremity (for example, Shaken Baby Syndrome) and its ostensible banality (for example, the Nanny Cam) and how the two are often intertwined. Ultimately, Zeavin grapples with a simple contradiction: technology is seen and judged as harmful in domestic and educational spaces, even as it is a saving grace in the unending labor of raising a family.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHannah Zeavin is Assistant Professor of the History of Science in the Department of History and the Berkeley Center for New Media at UC Berkeley. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Distance Cure\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press) and Founding Editor of \u003ci\u003eParapraxis\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2021, she cofounded The Psychosocial Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.1 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 29, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44418495512678,"sku":"9780262049559","price":43.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/66NreIQFGz9780262049559.webp?v=1770065455","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/mother-media-hot-and-cool-parenting-in-the-twentieth-century-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}