momism

• “You don't even have to be a mother to find a place in the new momism, which is, after all, at base about a certain idea of womanhood; woman as earthy, concrete, with her view of the world bound by personal experience - by "immanence," as Simone de Beauvoir once put it - and not by professional experience or abstract learning.”

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• “An afterward briefly summarizes the work of sf author Philip Wylie (When Worlds Collide) who coined the term "momism" to explain how sentimentality and over-simplification would be the ruin of American Democracy.”

  REVIEW: Infinity Plus - The Anthology edited by Keith Brooke and Nick Gevers

• “There is a lot of "momism" in this country which is strange because the majority of women are moms although that number is getting smaller.”

  Moms take down Motrin - Feministing

• “I'm understanding more of this "momism" that I've heard about.”

  Moms take down Motrin - Feministing

• “A predictable result of such concerns, given popular condemnation of momism, was the servicemen's fear that their sons had become sissies.”

  Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II

• “On soldiers, psychiatrists, and momism, see Rebecca Jo Plant, "The Repeal of Mother Love: Momism and the Reconstruction of Motherhood in Philip Wylie's America" (Ph.D. dissertation, The Johns Hopkins University, 2001), 183, 193 – 200. back”

  Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II

• “Not surprisingly, given popular anxiety about momism, Dumas and Keen's primary advice to mothers was to "cut those apron strings.”

  Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II

• “On momism and readjustment, see Plant, "The Veteran, His Wife, and Their Mothers." back”

  Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II

• “There is enough ‘momism’ in our society, I would hope that anyone calling themselves a feminist would understand that moms deserve just as much respect as those who choose not to be or cannot be.”

  Moms take down Motrin - Feministing

• “Michaels, takes a stab at it by suggesting that the old “feminine mystique” has morphed into a “new momism,” a perfectionist ideal of motherhood that torments women with standards no mortal can meet.”

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