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The Mommy Myth Susan Douglas

The Mommy Myth By Susan Douglas

The Mommy Myth by Susan Douglas

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Summary

THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE got women out of the home, BACKLASH decried the assault on what they had gained, and THE BEAUTY MYTH took on the beauty industry's oppression. Now THE MOMMY MYTH reveals the ground lost to an insidious movement that uses an idealized concept of motherhood to guilt women back into the cave.

The Mommy Myth Summary

The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women by Susan Douglas

Now in paperback, the provocative book that has ignited fiery debate and created a dialogue among women about the state of motherhood today. In THE MOMMY MYTH, Susan Douglas and Meredith Michaels turn their 'sharp, funny, and fed-up prose' (San Diego Union Tribune) toward the cult of the new momism, a trend in Western culture that suggests that women can only achieve contentment through the perfection of mothering. Even so, the standards of this ideal remain out of reach, no matter how hard women try to 'have it all'. THE MOMMY MYTH skilfully maps the distance travelled from the days when THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE demanded more for women than keeping house and raising children, to today's not-so-subtle pressure to reverse this trend. A must-read for every woman.

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An absolutely fascinating expose...this eye-opening report contains a wealth of valuable insight into the never-ending, and ultimately self-defeating, quest for the maternal perfection glorified by contemporary American society.
-- Booklist
In a book crackling with humor and sarcasm, the authors comb through the past thirty years' worth of nightly news reports, women's magazines, celebrity journalism, newspapers, and ads, and point out a growing obsession with this idealized, and guilt-inducing, version of motherhood that women can't achieve.
-- Chicago Tribune
This is a book for mothers who can admit that they yell sometimes, feed their children processed food, and occasionally get bored playing Barbie camp-out under the dining room table....It's a book for mothers who would be okay with being imperfect, if only the rest of the world would stop pointing out their shortcomings.
-- The Washington Post

About Susan Douglas

Susan J. Douglas is the Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination, Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media, and Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922. Her journalistic articles have appeared in The Nation, Ms., In These Times, TV Guide, and The Progressive.

Meredith W. Michaels is a writer who doubles as a philosophy professor at Smith College. Her research and writing focus on the way that cultural changes affect our understanding of reproduction, parenthood, and childhood.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Introduction The New Momism

One Revolt Against the MRS

Two Mouthing Off to Dr. Spock

Three Threats from Without: Satanism, Abduction, and Other Media Panics

Four Attack of the Celebrity Moms

Five Threats from Within: Maternal Delinquents

Six The War Against Welfare Mothers

Seven The Mommy Wars

Eight Dumb Men, Stupid Choices -- or Why We Have No Childcare

Nine Moms R Us

Ten Dr. Laura's Neighborhood: Baby Wearing, Nanny Cams, and the Triumph of the New Momism

Epilogue Exorcising the New Momism

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Questions and Topics for Discussion

Additional information

GOR003017802
9780743260466
0743260465
The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women by Susan Douglas
Susan Douglas
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Simon & Schuster
20050418
400
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