Moms Gone Mad: Motherhood and Madness Oppression and Resistance

Founded in maternal scholarship this volume takes the idea of madness as it has been applied to women as mothers and turns it on its head. We are all mad at, and driven mad by, the reigning ideology of the perfect mother. Associate Professor Gina Wong and her contributors provide an insightful critique of the mother blaming inherent in the psy discourses the lack of attention to power, the impossibility of meeting good mother ideals, and the dominant ideology inherent in medical diagnoses of bad mothers. In the process, they take the madness out of the mother and put it back into the socio-cultural landscape where it rightly belongs. This book is a must read for mental health practitioners, feminist scholars, mothers and all who care about them. Petra Bueskens, founder of ppmd Therapy and editor of Motherhood and Psychoanalysis: Clinical, Sociological and Feminist Perspectives