Myths of Motherhood: How Culture Reinvents the Good Mother by Thurer, Sherry
Myths of Motherhood: How Culture Reinvents the Good Mother by Thurer, Sherry

Myths of Motherhood: How Culture Reinvents the Good Mother

This groundbreaking and irreverent history of motherhood is worth a hundred advice books for any mother who's...
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Author: Sherry Thurer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Myths of Motherhood: How Culture Reinvents the Good Mother by Thurer, Sherry

Myths of Motherhood: How Culture Reinvents the Good Mother

$95.99 $50.53
Myths of Motherhood: How Culture Reinvents the Good Mother by Thurer, Sherry

Myths of Motherhood: How Culture Reinvents the Good Mother

$95.99 $50.53
Author: Sherry Thurer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Sherry Thurer
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 05/01/1995
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.34w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780140246834

About the Author
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.
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