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July 10
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The Great Indoors
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Molly
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The Great Indoors (Hardcover)
by Sabine Durrant
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April 06
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Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety (Paperback)
by Judith Warner
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Molly said:
"Although I find this book a bit depressing, it really resonates with me. In a grossly simplified nutshell, Judith Warner describes how we, generation X women, are living out hollow societal promises from our childhood. Feminism of the 70s and the &qu...more
Although I find this book a bit depressing, it really resonates with me. In a grossly simplified nutshell, Judith Warner describes how we, generation X women, are living out hollow societal promises from our childhood. Feminism of the 70s and the "you can have it all" mantra taught to us in the 80s have failed to pan out. We are not equal members of society, and we can not have it all. As mothers we have limited choices and a lack of support and we must make sacrifices (professional and personal) and endure discrimination that non-mothers will never have to. The resulting feeling of being unfulfilled is transformed into an obsessive approach to parenting. We try to gain the control and achievement we need by over-parenting impossing all kinds of (potentially emotionally and psychologically harmful) expectations onto our children. I am not finished reading the book yet, but I suspect it will not say much in the way of what we should do to improve this situation. Never-the-less, I have really appreciated her research and ideas as they explain why I, as a new mother, feel disappointed and depressed....less
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