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  Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How it Has Undermined All Women (Paperback) By (author) Susan J. Douglas, By (author) Meredith W. Michaels

  

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  Short Description for Mommy Myth'THE MOMMY MYTH' reveals the ground lost to an insidious movement that uses an idealized concept of motherhood to guilt women back into the cave.
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  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
  • Published: 05 February 2005
  • Format: Paperback 400 pages
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  • Categories: Society & Culture: General | Gender Studies: Women | Sociology: Family & Relationships | Advice On Parenting
  • ISBN 13: 9780743260466 ISBN 10: 0743260465
  • Sales rank: 177,432

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• Now in paperback, the provocative book that has ignited fiery debate and created a dialogue among women about the state of motherhood today. In THE MOMMY MYTH, Susan Douglas and Meredith Michaels turn their 'sharp, funny, and fed-up prose' (San Diego Union Tribune) toward the cult of the new momism, a trend in Western culture that suggests that women can only achieve contentment through the perfection of mothering. Even so, the standards of this ideal remain out of reach, no matter how hard women try to 'have it all'. THE MOMMY MYTH skilfully maps the distance travelled from the days when THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE demanded more for women than keeping house and raising children, to today's not-so-subtle pressure to reverse this trend. A must-read for every woman.