Myths of Motherhood: How Culture Reinvents the Good Mother (Paperback)

This groundbreaking and irreverent history of motherhood is worth a hundred advice books for any mother who's ever been made to feel guilty or frazzled by society's impossible expectations. Analyzing data from the psychoanalyst's couch to the hidden history of wet nursing, psychologist Shari L. Thurer wends her way from the Stone Age to the age of Hillary Rodham Clinton, painting a vivid, often frightening picture of life for mothers and children in a time when their roles were constructed by men. Along the way, she debunks myth after myth--exposing the not-so-golden ages of Classical Greece and the Italian Renaissance, and revealing the pervasive ideal of Dr. Spock's selfless, stay-at-home mother as the historical aberration it actually was. A work of impassioned scholarship and astonishing range, The Myths of Motherhood does nothing less than recast our conception of good mothering.

General

Imprint:	Penguin Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 1995
First published:	May 1995
Authors:	Shairi L. Thurer • Shari L Thurer • Sherry Thurer
Dimensions:	207 x 135 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	381
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-024683-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General
LSN:	0-14-024683-5
Barcode:	9780140246834

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