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... around the microcelebrity of blogger Glennon Doyle Melton. Specifically, this chapter argues that these mothering communities offer women individualized solidarities , where the aim of collectivity is to privatize happiness, that is, to stabilize and valorize individual nuclear families. Mothers feel...

... to be teetering on the verge of affective alienation. Reflecting on the insights from previous chapters, the authors wonder whether mothering through precarity, in wearing women down with the impossible work of privatizing happiness, is opening up new possibilities for family, collective caretaking...

... and cryogenic banks, the Amphibian Ark, to protect endangered animals from the fungus. Mechanized ecosystems, architectures of immunology, were assembled to hold endangered animals in perpetuity. Frogs who experience the ambivalent grace of salvation probably do not share the subjective feelings of happiness...