Maternal Desire On Children, Love, and the Inner Life

401 pages; Rubbing scuffs to DJ, not too prominent. Highlighting throughout the book. Very Good overall condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects.; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

From Publisher:

Handle: As groundbreaking as The Second Sex and as controversial as Backlash, Maternal Desire will transform forever our thinking about the place of childrearing in women's lives and our culture. Description: Until this moment, women with children have been stranded, either at home ("50s moms") or at work ("super moms"). Many people left out any profound talk about how the desire to parent can be one of the most powerful, joyous, self-actualizing experiences of a woman's life. Maternal Desire creates a new vocabulary for the desire to mother--both for the woman who is at home with her children and for the woman who works. De Marneffe writes with a poetic, vivid, and immediate voice about why the concept of wanting to mother feels so psychologically regressive to us. For too long society has had conservatives on one side, painting a sentimental and coercive picture of motherhood, and progressives on the other, emphasizing the penalties of motherhood: the professional sacrifices, the loss of status, the burden of childcare, etc. De Marneffe's book effectively tramples the political boundaries and celebrates the pleasures of motherhood as a feminist issue, and by doing so, empowers women to "tap into the roots, and fruits, of their own human happiness." She unearths the ideas that have unwittingly shaped the landscape of our inner lives, and in doing so, liberates us from them. Philosophical, accessible, and groundbreaking--Daphne de Marneffe has written a book that finally embraces the contradictions of being a mother. While never discounting the very real losses that motherhood can entail, her book stresses "the pleasures, the self-expression and the moral fulfillment that motheringaffords." This is a revolutionary, joyous, and transforming book.

Product Info

ISBN: 0316059951

ISBN-13: 9780316059954

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Year: 2004

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

Seller Info

TrueOakBooksLLC

Address: 574 New Paltz Rd Highland, New York

Website: https://www.trueoakbooks.com

Country: United States