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Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety (Paperback)
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Short Description for Perfect MadnessA 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, s
Full description- Publisher: Riverhead Books
- Published: 07 February 2006
- Format: Paperback 332 pages
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- Categories: Sociology: Family & Relationships | Advice On Parenting
- ISBN 13: 9781594481703 ISBN 10: 1594481709
- Sales rank: 292,949
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Be sure to visit the official Web site at perfectmadness.net!The paradigm-shattering bestseller that investigates how women have fallen into the trap of "total motherhood," and how that mind-set damages them and their relationships with their husbands and children.Manic cookie-baking at midnight. Play dates as complicated as peace summits. Mother-of-the-birthday-boy meltdown. Ambien nights and Ritalin days. No sex. No nights out. No sleep. Ever. It's madness. Now, in one of the most controversial books of the year, Judith Warner blows the lid off American mothers dirty little secret by interviewing those American mothers across the country to try to better understand what's wrong with the culture of American parenting.
