“According to Crittenden, young women today are deeply unhappy and confused because they ignored the siren song of the new momism and instead followed the really bad advice of their feminist mothers, who allegedly told their girls to forget marriage… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
“At the very same time that we witnessed the explosion of white celebrity moms, and the outpouring of advice to a surveillance of middle-class… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share
“After all, the media have been and are the major dispenser of the ideals and norms surrounding motherhood: Millions of us have gone to… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share
“Because the media always serve up heroes and villians, there had to be the terrible mothers, the anti-Madonnas, the hideous counterexamples good mothers were… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share
..."Fun?" you ask. "Weren't feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn't get a man?" Well, in fact the… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share
“The frenzied hypernatalism of the women's magazines alone (and that includes People, Us, and InStyle), with their endless parade of perfect, "sexy" celebrity moms… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share
Here's the progression. Feminism won; you can have it all; of course you want children; mothers are better at raising children than fathers; of… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share
If you're like us -mothers with an attitude problem- you may be getting increasingly irritable about this chasm between the ridiculous, honey-hued ideals of… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share
“It's 5:22pm you're in the grocery checkout line. Your three-year-old is writhing on the floor, screaming, because you have refused to buy her a… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share
We need to make fun of and ridicule the media images that seek to keep us down, divide us against each other by age,… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share
“To review briefly, in the late 1960s, men got paid more than women (usually double) for doing the exact same job. Women could get… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share
“...There were the studies, beginning in 2007, which found that the suicide rate among women who had received breast implants were twice the suicide… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share
“Most people don’t get (or want) to look at old news footage, but we looked at thirty years of stories relating to motherhood. In… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share
“At the same time that middle- and upper-middle-class mothers were urged to pipe Mozart into their wombs when they're pregnant so their kids would… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share
...One of the reasons so many women say "I'm not a feminist but..." (and then put forward a feminist position), is that in addition… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share
“Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped by the… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share
