Perfect madness motherhood in the age of anxiety Riverhead trade pbk 1st Edition by Judith Warner ISBN 1594481709 978-1594481703

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ISBN 10:  1594481709 

ISBN 13: 978-1594481703

Author: Judith Warner

A lively and provocative look at the modern culture of motherhood and at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped current ideas about parenting

What is wrong with this picture? That’s the question Judith Warner asks in this national bestseller after taking a good, hard look at the world of modern parenting–at anxious women at work and at home and in bed with unhappy husbands.

When Warner had her first child, she was living in Paris, where parents routinely left their children home, with state-subsidized nannies, to join friends in the evening for dinner or to go on dates with their husbands. When she returned to the States, she was stunned by the cultural differences she found toward how people think about effective parenting–in particular, assumptions about motherhood. None of the mothers she met seemed happy; instead, they worried about the possibility of not having the perfect child, panicking as each developmental benchmark approached.

Combining close readings of mainstream magazines, TV shows, and pop culture with a thorough command of dominant ideas in recent psychological, social, and economic theory, Perfect Madness addresses our cultural assumptions, and examines the forces that have shaped them.

Working in the tradition of classics like Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique and Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, and with an awareness of a readership that turned recent hits like The Bitch in the House and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It into bestsellers, Warner offers a context in which to understand parenting culture and the way we live, as well as ways of imagining alternatives–actual concrete changes–that might better our lives.

Table of contents: 

1. Preface: “This Mess”

2. Introduction: The Mommy Mystique

3. The New Problem That Has No Name

4. The Sacrificial Mother

5. Selfish Mothers, Forsaken Children

6. Millennial Motherhood

7. The Motherhood Religion

8. A Generation of Control Freaks

9. Running Scared

10. Winner-Take-All Parenting

11. Wonderful Husbands

12. For a Politics of Quality of Life

13. Conclusion

14. Acknowledgments

15. Bibliography

16. Index

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