“Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century”

Berkeley Center for Social Medicine faculty affiliate, Hannah Zeavin, has a new book available. This work is an essential history for understanding how we mother now, and how motherhood itself became a medium. Here 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.