Susan J. Douglas, Meredith Michaels

The Mommy Myth

The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Just as "The Feminine Mystique" got women out of the home, this book reveals the ground lost to an insidious movement that uses an idealized concept of motherhood to guilt women back into the cave.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Free Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9780743260466
• ISBN-10: 0743260465
• Artikelnr.: 22239143

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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