MOTHERS

Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty is guided by a simple argument: that motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge - o r rather bury - the reality of our own conflicts, of psychic life, and what it means to be fully human. Mothers are the ultimate sca pegoat for our personal and political failings, for everything that is wrong with the world, which becomes their task (unrealizable, of course) to repair.To the familiar claim that too much is asked of mothers - a long-standing feminist plaint - Rose adds a furthe r dimens...[Read more]