{"product_id":"perfect-madness","title":"Perfect Madness - Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety","description":"\u003cb\u003eA\u003cb\u003e lively \u003c\/b\u003eand provocative look at the modern culture of motherhood and at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped current ideas about parenting\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is wrong with this picture? That's the question Judith Warner asks in this national bestseller after taking a good, hard look at the world of modern parenting--at anxious women at work and at home and in bed with unhappy husbands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Warner had her first child, she was living in Paris, where parents routinely left their children home, with state-subsidized nannies, to join friends in the evening for dinner or to go on dates with their husbands. When she returned to the States, she was stunned by the cultural differences she found toward how people think about effective parenting--in particular, assumptions about motherhood. None of the mothers she met seemed happy; instead, they worried about the possibility of not having the perfect child, panicking as each developmental benchmark approached.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombining close readings of mainstream magazines, TV shows, and pop culture with a thorough command of dominant ideas in recent psychological, social, and economic theory, \u003ci\u003ePerfect Madness\u003c\/i\u003e addresses our cultural assumptions, and examines the forces that have shaped them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorking in the tradition of classics like Betty Friedan's \u003ci\u003eThe Feminine Mystique\u003c\/i\u003e and Christopher Lasch's \u003ci\u003eThe Culture of Narcissism\u003c\/i\u003e, and with an awareness of a readership that turned recent hits like \u003ci\u003eThe Bitch in the House\u003c\/i\u003e and Allison Pearson's \u003ci\u003eI Don't Know How She Does It\u003c\/i\u003e into bestsellers, Warner offers a context in which to understand parenting culture and the way we live, as well as ways of imagining alternatives--actual concrete changes--that might better our lives.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51167271518496,"sku":"9781594481703","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781594481703.jpg?v=1769727884","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/perfect-madness","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}