Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
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The paradigm-shattering bestseller that investigates how women have fallen into the trap of "total motherhood," and how that mind-set damages them and their relationships with their husbands and children. The New York Times - Judith Shulevitz Manifestoes blast their way into the popular consciousness on two kinds of fuel: recognition (we see ourselves in them) and rage (we can no longer tolerate the injustice they describe). Judith Warner's Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety brims with both. She clearly means for her denunciation of American-style mothering to do for overstressed 21st-century upper-middle-class American women what Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique did for underemployed 20th-century ones.
