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Mothers : an Essay on Love and Cruelty by Jacqueline Rose [Rose, Jacqueline] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Mothers : an Essay on Love and Cruelty about?

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 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 to insights on motherhood in the ancient world and the contemporary stigmatization of single mothers, Jacqueline Rose delivers a groundbreaking report into something so prevalent we hardly notice. Mothers is an incisive, rousing call to action from one of our most important contemporary thinkers. **

Who reads Mothers : an Essay on Love and Cruelty?

Author

Jacqueline Rose [Rose, Jacqueline]

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780865474987

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Gender Studies, Poetry