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237 pages • first pub 2018 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780374213794
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
A 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...
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237 pages • first pub 2018 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780374213794
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
A 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...