Definitions
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- noun Carping; faultfinding.
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- noun Excessive
attachment to one’smother - noun Finding
fault ;carping
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- noun excessive protection
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Examples
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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.
NYT > Home Page By JUDITH WARNER 2010
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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 2007
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I'm understanding more of this "momism" that I've heard about.
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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.
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On momism and readjustment, see Plant, "The Veteran, His Wife, and Their Mothers." back
Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008
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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 2008
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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 2008
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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 2008
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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.
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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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Logophile77 commented on the word momism
See Oedipal.
January 10, 2018