Relying on women's own words in letters and journals, Rosenzweig
refutes the prescriptive literature of the times with its dire
predictions of inevitable rifts between Victorian mothers and their
daughters, the new women of the twentieth century. Instead
Rosenzweig shows us mothers who rejoiced in their daughters'
educational successes and, while they did not always comprehend the
nature of the changes taking place, were only too happy to see
their daughters escape some of their own restrictions and grief.
Extremely useful to scholars and teachers of women's history and
family history, "The Anchor of My Life" should also be fascinating
to the general public for the accurate window that it provides on
these complicated family relationship in our history.
--Laurie Crumpacker, Department of History, Simmons College
"Drawing on a broad array of historical sources, "The Anchor of
My Life"challenges the common assumption that mother-daughter
relationships invariably are characterized by tensions and
conflicts. This lively and moving book deserves a wide
audience."
--Emily K. Abel, author of "Circles of Care: Work and Identity in
Women's Lives"
The relationship between mothers and daughters has been the
subject of much research and study, in such fields as
psychoanalysis, sociology, and women's studies. But rarely has the
history and evolution of this relationship been examined.
In "The Anchor of My Life," Linda W. Rosenzweig draws on a wide
range of primary sources--letters, diaries, autobiographies,
prescriptive advice or self-help literature, and fiction--to reveal
the historical nuances of this pivotal relationship. Rosenzweig's
distinctive approach focuses on theinteraction between mothers and
daughters of the American middle class at the turn of the century,
revealing that mothers and daughters managed to sustain close,
nurturing relationships in an era marked by a major female
generation gap in terms of aspirations and opportunities.
Illustrated with photographs and portraits of the time, "The Anchor
of My Life" provocatively challenges the facile, late
twentieth-century assumption that the mother-daughter relationship
is necessarily defined by hostility, guilt, and antagonism.
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