Optimal Motherhood and Other Lies Facebook Told Us

Assembling the Networked Ethos of Contemporary Maternity Advice

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Kari Nixon, Jessica Clements: Optimal Motherhood and Other Lies Facebook Told Us (2022, MIT Press)

English language

Published 2022 by MIT Press.

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978-0-262-54362-0
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This book examines discourses and debates on online mothers groups. It shows how most are built on binary choices (eg safe sleep vs co-sleep) that entirely ignore mothers' well-being and agency and proposes a better way to think about motherhood.