Susan J. Douglas

“At the very same time that we witnessed the explosion of white celebrity moms, and the outpouring of advice to a surveillance…

— Susan J. Douglas

“After all, the media have been and are the major dispenser of the ideals and norms surrounding motherhood: Millions of us have…

— Susan J. Douglas

“Because the media always serve up heroes and villians, there had to be the terrible mothers, the anti-Madonnas, the hideous counterexamples good…

— Susan J. Douglas

..."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…

— Susan J. Douglas

“The frenzied hypernatalism of the women's magazines alone (and that includes People, Us, and InStyle), with their endless parade of perfect, "sexy"…

— Susan J. Douglas

Here's the progression. Feminism won; you can have it all; of course you want children; mothers are better at raising children than…

— Susan J. Douglas

If you're like us -mothers with an attitude problem- you may be getting increasingly irritable about this chasm between the ridiculous, honey-hued…

— Susan J. Douglas

“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…

— Susan J. Douglas

We need to make fun of and ridicule the media images that seek to keep us down, divide us against each other…

— Susan J. Douglas

“To review briefly, in the late 1960s, men got paid more than women (usually double) for doing the exact same job. Women…

— Susan J. Douglas

“...There were the studies, beginning in 2007, which found that the suicide rate among women who had received breast implants were twice…

— Susan J. Douglas

“Most people don’t get (or want) to look at old news footage, but we looked at thirty years of stories relating to…

— Susan J. Douglas

“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…

— Susan J. Douglas

...One of the reasons so many women say "I'm not a feminist but..." (and then put forward a feminist position), is that…

— Susan J. Douglas

“Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped…

— Susan J. Douglas

“To emphasize how truly backward our society is...let's finish with a little quiz. Let's do it like Jeopardy. In 1990, this government…

— Susan J. Douglas

“Coonskin caps and silly putty were just not going to cut it anymore. The good mother got her kids toys that were…

— Susan J. Douglas

“In 1970, Alix Kates Shulman, a wife, mother, and writer who had joined the Women's Liberation Movement in New York, wrote a…

— Susan J. Douglas

“According to Crittenden, young women today are deeply unhappy and confused because they ignored the siren song of the new momism and…

— Susan J. Douglas

“The right wing of the Republican party-- which controlled the White House from 1980 to 1992, crucial years in the evolution of…

— Susan J. Douglas

“Now, here's the real beauty of this contorting contradiction. Both working mothers and stay-at-home mothers get to be failures. The ethos of…

— Susan J. Douglas

“Postfeminism, as a term, suggests that women have made plenty of progress because of feminism, but that feminism is now irrelevant and…

— Susan J. Douglas

We all know what feminists are. They are shrill, overly aggressive, man-hating, ball-busting, selfish, hairy, extremist, deliberately unattractive women with absolutely no…

— Susan J. Douglas

Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped…

— Susan J. Douglas

“There is also the ceaseless outpouring of books on toilet training, separating one sibling's fist from another sibling's eye socket, expressing breast…

— Susan J. Douglas