{"product_id":"perfect-madness-motherhead-in-the-age-of-anxiety","title":"Perfect Madness: Motherhead in the Age of Anxiety","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003ePerfect Madness: Motherhead in the Age of Anxiety\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJudith Warner\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781573223041\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eRiverhead Hardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2005\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e336\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eA lively and provocative look at the modern culture of motherhood and at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped current ideas about parenting. \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e When Warner had her first child, she was living in Paris, where parents routinely left their children home, with state-subsidized nannies, to join friends 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. \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e Working in the tradition of classics like Betty Friedan's \"The Feminine Mystique\" and Christopher Lasch's \"The Culture of Narcissism,\" and with an awareness of a readership that turned recent hits like \"The Bitch in the House\" and Allison Pearson's \"I Don't Know How She Does It\" into bestsellers, Warner offers a context in which to understand the way we live, as well as ways of imagining alternatives-actual concrete changes-that might better our lives.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Riverhead Hardcover","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Madness: Motherhead in the Age of Anxiety | Judith Warner | Hardcover | 9781573223041 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks D 1760351","offer_id":49199084667032,"sku":"1760351","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/7199WaICZ-L.jpg?v=1780694685","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/perfect-madness-motherhead-in-the-age-of-anxiety","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}