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On Instagram, the private work of mothering has been turned into a public performance that's generating billions of dollars, and the message is simple: we're all just a couple of clicks away from a better, more beautiful experience of motherhood. Momfluenced examines the performance of motherhood, producers of it and consumers of it, through the multilayered phenomenon of the mommy influencer. Sara Petersen tackles the complexities of modern motherhood. Drawing on personal experience, interviews with prominent momfluencers, literature, pop culture, and discussions with experts (psychologists, linguists, sociologists, technologists) to construct a wide-ranging exploration of maternal glorification and self-erasure. For fans of Lyz Lenz's searing critique in Belabored of how we treat mothers in this country and of Jia Tolentino's decoding of social media in Trick Mirror, Momfluenced argues that mommy influencer culture has fundamentally changed modern motherhood by transforming it into a vehicle for consumption. More than an investigation into filters or a critique of monetized identity performances, Momfluenced considers what it means to define motherhood for ourselves when society is determined to define motherhood for us.

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Sara Petersen is a writer based in New Hampshire. Her essays about feminism, domesticity, and motherhood have appeared in The New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, The Washington Post, InStyle, Glamour, and elsewhere. She can be found at Sara-Petersen.com and on Twitter and Instagram, where she rages about the state of modern motherhood, occasionally asks for skincare recs, and shares every bit of MLM content she can find. Megan Tusing is an experienced actor and audiobook narrator who has numerous credits in stage, film, and television. She has recorded over one hundred audiobooks and, when not on stage or in the booth, can be found knitting in the company of good friends. A native of West Virginia, she currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

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