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Mothers

An Essay on Love and Cruelty

Jacqueline Rose author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:7th Mar '19

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A daring and provocative book-length essay on the role of mothers in culture, history and the human heart.

Moving commandingly between pop cultural references such as Roald Dahl's 'Matilda' to observations about motherhood in the ancient world, from and thoughts about the stigmatization of single mothers in the UK, Mothers delivers a groundbreaking report into something so prevalent we hardly notice.From one of the most important contemporary thinkers we have, a compelling, forceful tract about women and motherhood that demands immediate attention. Moving commandingly between pop cultural references such as Roald Dahl's 'Matilda' to observations about motherhood in the ancient world, from and thoughts about the stigmatization of single mothers in the UK, Mothers delivers a groundbreaking report into something so prevalent we hardly notice.

ISBN: 9780571331444

Dimensions: 200mm x 128mm x 18mm

Weight: 207g

256 pages

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