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Motherhood In The Age Of Anxiety
Riverhead
February 2005
On Sale: February 17, 2005
336 pages
ISBN: 1573223042
EAN: 9781573223041
Kindle: B004IATCIE
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
A lively and provocative look at the modern culture of motherhood and at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped current ideas aboutparenting. What is wrong with this picture? That's the question Judith Warner asks after taking a good, hard look at the world of modern motherhood-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 joinfriends 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 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.
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