The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women
By S. Douglas, M. Michaels. 2004
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Citations in the corpus
- Risk Factors for Parental Burnout among Finnish Parents: The Role of Socially Prescribed Perfectionism (2020, background): “Although parents have been shown to be both harsh on themselves and experience pressure in their parenting from other people (Douglas and Michaels 2004; Hagger 2011), the relationship between parental burnout and multidimensional perfectionism has so far not been investigated.”
- The First Four-wheeled Status Symbol: Pram Consumption as a Vehicle for the Construction of Motherhood Identity (2006, background): “Such approaches are, allegedly, already being applied (Douglas and Michaels 2004) and not for the well-being of consumers!”
- The End of the Gender Revolution? Gender Role Attitudes from 1977 to 20081 (2011, background): “Intensive mothering was reinforced by the transformation of the toy industry into “educational support” and by the media’s serious treatment of such far-fetched ideas as the benefits to the fetus of listening to Mozart (Douglas and Michaels 2004).”
- Abandoning The Performance Narrative: Two Women's Stories of Transition from Professional Sport (2009, unknown): “…mothers are selfless and sacrifice their own wants and needs for those of their children” (Collett, 2005, p. 340) to the point that, “to be a remotely decent mother, a woman has to devote her entire physical, emotional, and intellectual being 24/7, to her children” (Douglas & Michaels, 2004, p. 4).”
- The Good Working Mother: Managerial Women’s Sensemaking and Feelings About Work–Family Issues (2005, background): “Because working is so important to our participants and because societal expectations for “new momism” is that mothers devote every moment to their children (Douglas & Michaels, 2004; Warner, 2005), they may tend to over-state their case to prove the worth of their activities.”
- Parenting (2015, background): “One of the most clear observations to emerge from recent studies of the new “parenting culture” is that raising children now encompasses a growing range of activities that were not previously seen as an obligatory dimension of this social role (Douglas & Michaels, 2004; Hays, 1996).”