“Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped by the mom down the street, or in the magazine we're reading. The competition isn't just over who's… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
“There is also the ceaseless outpouring of books on toilet training, separating one sibling's fist from another sibling's eye socket, expressing breast milk while reading a legal brief, helping preschoolers to "own" their feelings, getting Joshua to do his homework,… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
..."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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“...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 Image
“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 Image
