Bethany L Johnson, Margaret M Quinlan

You're Doing It Wrong!

Mothering, Media, and Medical Expertise

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Produktbeschreibung

Investigates the storied history of mothering advice in the media, from the newspapers, magazines, doctors' records and personal papers of the nineteenth-century to today's websites, Facebook groups and Instagram feeds. Bethany Johnson and Margaret Quinlan find surprising parallels between today's experts and their Victorian counterparts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780813593791
• ISBN-10: 0813593794
• Artikelnr.: 54019766

Autorenporträt

Bethany L. Johnson is an instructor in history and an associate member to the graduate faculty and research affiliate faculty in the department of communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.   Margaret M. Quinlan is a professor of communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Photographs
Part I: Conception and (In)fertility
Introduction
Chapter 1: On Preconception, the Beginning of the Life-cycle of Early
Motherhood
Chapter 2: A State of Mind?: Fertility Treatment(s) and Expertise
Part II: Pregnancy and Birth
Chapter 3: Red Underwear, Genes and Monstrosity: Pregnancy, Behavior and
Intergenerational Impact
Chapter 4: "You Women Will Have to Fight for It": Twilight Sleep and
Transactional Childbirth Expertise in 20th-century America
Part III: The Postpartum Period; The "Fourth Trimester"
Chapter 5: "One of the Most Curious Charities in the World": Infant
Incubation as Sideshow and/or Medical Specialty
Chapter 6: Not Just Baby Blues: Historical Realities and Social Media
Accounts of Postpartum Care Today
Part IV: Infant Loss and Early Childhood
Chapter 7: Memento Mori in the Victorian Era and on Social Media: The
"Right" (Way) to Grieve
Chapter 8: "Better Babies:" Early 20th-century Scientific Babyhood and
Constructions of 21st-century Infancy on Instagram
Conclusion
Methodological Appendix
Master Reference List
Selected Bibliography
Index