Mom
Subtitle: the transformation of motherhood in modern America
By: Rebecca Jo Plant.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226670201
Subjects: Wylie, Philip, -- 1902-1971 -- Criticism and interpretation; Friedan, Betty -- Criticism and interpretation; 307.76 -- United States; Motherhood in popular culture -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Debunking the all-American mom: Philip Wylie's momism critique; title: Mothers of the nation: patriotic maternalism and its critics; title: Pathologizing mother love: mental health and maternal affectivity; title: Banishing the suffering mother: the quest for painless childbirth; title: Mother-blaming and the feminine mystique: Betty Friedan and her readers.