Mothering through Precarity: Women's Work and Digital Media
Julie A. Wilson is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Theatre at Allegheny College.
Emily Chivers Yochim is Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Theatre at Allegheny College and the author of Skate Life: Re-Imagining White Masculinity.
Julie A. Wilson is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Theatre at Allegheny College.
Emily Chivers Yochim is Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Theatre at Allegheny College and the author of Skate Life: Re-Imagining White Masculinity.
Mamapreneurialism: Family Appreciation in the Digital Mundane
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Published:March 2017
This chapter drills down into the everyday lives of four women to show how mamapreneurialism emerges as the primary sensibility of mothering through precarity. For these mothers, it is not enough to be a “good mom”; they also feel responsible for securitizing the family. As financial and other sorts of disasters loom, family can readily depreciate or be depreciated, so mothers must continually work to appreciate it anew by becoming ever more mamapreneurial. Mamapreneurialism includes not only enterprising economic activities like online couponing and work-at-home sales but also a battery of banal decisions, activities, affects, and labors. It asks mothers...
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