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Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty, by Jacqueline Rose
€7.00

Quay Books
Mothers is an incisive, rousing call to action from one of our most important contemporary thinkers.
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.
"In this intellectually rigorous exploration of motherhood in Western culture, British essayist Rose urges readers to rethink what they expect from mothers." - Publishers Weekly
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