Sherry Thurer: Myths of Motherhood

Cover: 9780140246834 | Myths of Motherhood | How Culture Reinvents the Good Mother | Thurer

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Shari L. Thurer is a professor at Boston University and a psychoanalytically trained psychologist with a private practice. She has published widely in scholarly journals on the concept of the good mother. She lives with her husband and daughter in Boston.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Mothering - The Old-Fashioned Way
What Becomes a Legend Most?
Cavemother: Old Stone Age Mom
The Divine Womb: New Stone Age Mom

2. History Begins, Herstory Ends
The Decline and Fall of the Great Mother
The Cradle in the Cradle: Sumerian Mom
Honored Tombs, Honored Wombs: Ancient Egyptian Mom
The Abyss: Phoenician Mom
A Mother Love Story: Ancient Hebrew Mom

3. The Sublime and the Ridiculous: Classical Mom
The Secret History
Sexual Politics in Ancient Greece
Where's Momma? Maternal Images
She Loved Them, She Loved Them Not: Maternal Reality

4. Sacred and Profane Callings: Medieval Mom
Madonna Fever, the Original Version
Does She Love Me?
Medieval Mixed Messages
Devil or Angel: Images of the Child
Mother Superior, Mother Inferior: Maternal Images
Facts of Life: Maternal Reality

5. Father Knows Best: Early Modern Mom
The Obedient Mom: 1500-1700
Down and Out: Maternal Images
Sparing the Rod: Maternal Reality

6. The Exaltation of Mother: Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Mom
From Devil's Consort to "Angel of the House"
The Romantic Tableau: Maternal Images in the Eighteenth Century
The Calm Before the Repressive Storm: Maternal Reality in the Eighteenth Century
Upstairs, Downstairs: Maternal Images in the Nineteenth Century
The Repressive Storm: Maternal Reality in the Nineteenth Century

7. Fall from Grace: Twentieth-Century Mom
Scientific Mom: 1900-1940
Empathic Mom: 1940-1980
Reinventing the Myth: 1980-1990s

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	1995
Rubrik:	Ratgeber
Thema:	Lebensführung allgemein
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780140246834
ISBN-10:	0140246835
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Thurer, Sherry
Hersteller:	Penguin Publishing Group
Maße:	203 x 133 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Sherry Thurer
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.05.1995
Gewicht:	0,465 kg

Artikel-ID: 101441686