- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0140291784
- ISBN-13: 978-0140291780
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.1 x 1.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #229,323 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Helped me after shock of new motherhood!,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Mask of Motherhood: How Becoming a Mother Changes Our Lives and Why We Never Talk About It (Paperback)
I'm sure there are mothers out there who had a blissful pregnancy, delivery, breastfeeding experience, and LOVE every second of staying at home with their children-or working and still taking primary responsibility for the children. However, for the other 99% of us, this book lets us know that our negative feelings do not make us bad mothers, and are in fact, quite common (if not the norm). I've given this book to every one of my friends who is considering motherhood. I am not attempting to disuade them, but to let them know that if they have negative feelings about the experience of motherhood and birth, they are not bad women or mothers, as our prevailing cultural myths would have them believe.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Mixed bag...bold ideas but is she unhappy mother!,
By christina (Carlsbad, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Mask of Motherhood: How Becoming a Mother Changes Our Lives and Why We Never Talk About It (Paperback)
Hmm...really displeased with the anti-breastfeeding twist discussed at length. yes, she discusses the brutal and sometimes ugly feelings of mothering, but it is one-sided. Not one mention of a happy mother or women plesaed with their parenting choices. She's almost anti-female in some of the concepts. Just because no one has presented these ideas before doesn't make them real or true for the majority of mothers. Her unique and personal "mask" of motherhood is atypical and does not represent most modern women today. Not empowering, although cleverly done and presented in an adequate writing style. Would not recommend it or pass it on to other mommy's.
2.0 out of 5 stars
She manages to write many pages without saying anything,
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This review is from: The Mask of Motherhood: How Becoming a Mother Changes Our Lives and Why We Never Talk About It (Paperback)
I have purchased Susan Maushart's book recently because it was recommended as "debunking the myths of motherhood". The book indeed attempts to reveal and dissect the problems with mothers' identity in our society. Unfortunately, Ms Maushart is too enamored with the idea of making all options equal, not offending anyone, and with sounding scientific. She talks and talks, finding many different ways to say the same thing over and over and not telling us anything new. What's worse, she belittles breastfeeding as just one of those dumb old things we were led to believe are better, "like cooking things from scratch". It's too bad that Ms Maushart, in her attempt to sound well researched and scientific, has forgotten to actually look at scientific research.
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