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3.75? 4? Star ratings are hard 

Momfluenced looks at some of the big pitfalls of mom influencer culture and how they are reflective of (are impacted by and themselves impact) culture at large. There are some really interesting connections and insights here concerning marketing, inequality, the role of white women in white supremacy, and much more. There is also discussion about the positives including how these social media platforms connect marginalized people. 

There was so much that I really enjoyed about this initially but it did have it's issues as well. Certainly, there were topics that could have been expanded upon and I would have liked to see a bit on how this culture impacts the children as well. But the real drawback for me was some of the analysis politically. While there were some issues shown and some systems questioned, there was a lot that wasn't. Most solutions or ideas of where to go from here were more neo-liberal and surface-level. Given the insight in the rest of the book, I was disappointed in how watered down a lot of the last couple of chapters were in this regard.

Overall, this had some really interesting and important insights, but there is a lot more that I'd like to see dug into on several fronts.


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