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This book is an exploration of a feeling. That caught-by-the-throat feeling so many mothers have today of always doing something wrong. And it's about a conviction I have that this feeling-this widespread, choking cocktail of guilt and anxiety and resentment and regret-is poisoning motherhood for American women today. Lowering our horizons and limiting our minds. Sapping energy that we should have for ourselves and our children. And drowning out thoughts that might lead us, collectively, to formulate solutions. The feeling has many faces, but it doesn't really have a name. It's not depression. It's not oppression. It's a mix of things, a kind of too-muchness. An existential discomfort. A mess. -from Perfect Madness.Warner, Judith is the author of 'Perfect Madness Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety', published 2006 under ISBN 9781573223041 and ISBN 1573223042.
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