Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty
A daring and provocative book-length essay on why we both romanticize and vilify mothersA simple argument guides this book: motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge, or rather bury, the reality of our own conflicts. By making mothers the objects of both licensed idealization and cruelty, we blind ourselves to the world's iniquities and shut down the portals of the heart.Mothers are the ultimate scapegoat for our personal and political failings, for everything that is wrong with the world, which becomes their task (unrealizable, of course) to repair. Moving commandingly between pop cultural references such as Roald Dahl's Matilda…
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- ISBN: 978-0-374-53847-7
- EAN: 9780374538477
- Produktnummer: 28950066
- Verlag: Farrar Strauss Giroux 3Pl
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 254 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.1 cm x D2.3 cm 298 g
- Gewicht: 298
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Jacqueline Rose
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