Mothers
Jacqueline Rose, 19 June 2014
The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women
by Elisabeth Badinter, translated by Adriana Hunter.
Picador, 224 pp., £10.99, June 2013,978 1 250 03209 6 Show More
by Elisabeth Badinter, translated by Adriana Hunter.
Picador, 224 pp., £10.99, June 2013,
Are You My Mother?
by Alison Bechdel.
Jonathan Cape, 304 pp., £16.99, May 2012,978 0 224 09352 1 Show More
by Alison Bechdel.
Jonathan Cape, 304 pp., £16.99, May 2012,
A Child of One’s Own: Parental Stories
by Rachel Bowlby.
Oxford, 256 pp., £20, June 2013,978 0 19 960794 5 Show More
by Rachel Bowlby.
Oxford, 256 pp., £20, June 2013,
Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome
by Lauren Hackworth Petersen and Patricia Salzman-Mitchell.
Texas, 274 pp., £16.99, April 2013,978 0 292 75434 8 Show More
by Lauren Hackworth Petersen and Patricia Salzman-Mitchell.
Texas, 274 pp., £16.99, April 2013,
Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? Unmarried Motherhood in 20th-Century England
by Pat Thane and Tanya Evans.
Oxford, 240 pp., £24.99, August 2013,978 0 19 968198 3 Show More
by Pat Thane and Tanya Evans.
Oxford, 240 pp., £24.99, August 2013,
I Don’t Know Why She Bothers: Guilt-Free Motherhood for Thoroughly Modern Womanhood
by Daisy Waugh.
Weidenfeld, 240 pp., £12.99, July 2013,978 0 297 86876 7 Show More
by Daisy Waugh.
Weidenfeld, 240 pp., £12.99, July 2013,
“... the give-away. Winnicott’s argument doesn’t mean that the mother doesn’t love her baby. As Alison Bechdel puts it in her cartoon-strip drama, Are You My Mother?, ‘The mother loves the baby too. But this is the point. Hate is a part of love.’ Bechdel’s book, published in 2012, narrates her quest to reach ... ”
