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The Baby on the Fire Escape - Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem (Hardcover)
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The Baby on the Fire Escape - Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem (Hardcover)
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What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own" but in a
domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The
Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Julie Phillips
traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and creativity
converge. With fierce empathy and vivid prose, Phillips evokes the
intimate struggles of brilliant artists and writers, including
Doris Lessing, who had to choose between her motherhood and
herself; Ursula K. Le Guin, who found productive stability in
family life; Audre Lorde, whose queer, polyamorous union allowed
her to raise children on her own terms and Alice Neel, who once, to
finish a painting, was said to have left her baby on the fire
escape of her New York apartment. A meditation on maternal identity
and artistic greatness, The Baby on the Fire Escape illuminates
some of the most pressing conflicts in contemporary women's lives.
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