Hannah Zeavin in Conversation With Lydia Kiesling

From the nursery to the prison, from the clinic to the commune, Mother Media (MIT Press) 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. Zeavin’s book charts the crisis of the family across the twentieth [...]