the politics of blame in twentieth-century America
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ladd-Taylor, Molly > (ed.)
- Creator
- Umansky, Lauri > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Solinger, Rickie
- Publish Year
- 1997
- Shelfmark
- VS 39 1997 - B
- Thesaurus
- moeders, kinderen, criminaliteit, zwarte vrouwen, homo's, psychische stoornissen, witte vrouwen, dochters, joodse vrouwen, Verenigde Staten, bundel
- Description
- In the past quarter century, 'bad' mothers have moved noticeably toward center stage in American culture. Mothers have long been blamed for a host of problems, from autism in children (due to chilly mothers) to homosexuality (attributable to 'smothering' moms) to welfare dependency and crime (caused by black 'matriarchs' and single mothers). Some mothers are not good mothers. Yet the definition of what constitutes a bad mother has expanded significantly in recent years. With a distinct minority of American families living the two-parent, one-worker lifestyle touted as the norm, we face a discomfiting question: do most mothers now qualify as 'bad' mothers in one way or another?