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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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