An exploration of the darker side of maternal behavior drawn
from scientific research, psychology, and the real-life experiences
of adult daughters, Mean Mothers sheds light on one of the last
cultural taboos: what happens when a woman doesn't or can't love
her daughter.
Mean Mothers reveals the multigenerational thread that often
runs through these stories--many unloving mothers are the daughters
of unloving or hypercritical women--and explores what happens to a
daughter's sense of self and to her relationships when her mother
is emotionally absent or even cruel. But Mean Mothers is also a
narrative of hope, recounting how daughters can get past the legacy
of hurt to become whole within and to become loving mothers to the
next generation of daughters. The personal stories of unloved
daughters and sons and those of the author herself, are both
unflinching and moving, and bring this most difficult of subjects
to life.
Mean Mothers isn't just a book for daughters who've had
difficult or impossible relationships with their mothers. By
exposing the myths of motherhood that prevent us from talking about
the women for whom mothering a daughter is fraught with
ambivalence, tension, or even jealousy, Mean Mothers also casts a
different light on the extraordinary influence mothers have over
their female children as well as the psychological complexity and
emotional depth of the mother-daughter relationship.
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