But don't white middle-class women count too? Warner acknowledges that she's only representing one particular demographic (I haven't read the book, but she's pretty forthcoming about this fact in her interviews). Just because mommy madness doesn't affect all women of all classes doesn't mean that it isn't a real issue worthy of discussion for many of us.

From the Salon interview, I thought the Warner book sounded fine for what it was. However, for a more comprehensive look at motherhood, I can't recommend The Mommy Myth, by Susan J. Douglas and Meredith Michaels, strongly enough. Douglas and Michaels do look at how working class, poor, and minority women are portrayed in the mass media. (And if you're interested in learning more, there's a link to an interview with Douglas in the Warner interview.) While I'd have to read Warner's book for myself to understand her rationale, I'm not sure I buy her idea that the mass media do not influence our perceptions of what an ideal mother should be.

That said, I still think Warner's book sounds like it has more merit, and is more feminist-friendly, than Belkin et al. Yes, it's narrow in scope -- but so was The Feminine Mystique, which is still hailed as a landmark in feminist consciousness-raising.

I have only read a review of the book but I believe that it discusses some of the myths of motherhood in a useful way. Sure, her stories are about upper-class women, but the myths filter from them to all the other women, and they really are impossible myths, on the whole.

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