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Maternal Desire : On Children, Love, and the Inner Life by Daphne de Marneffe (2004, Hardcover)

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What is the desire to mother? How do we understand it, talk about it, and think about it? These questions are at the heart of Maternal Desire, a groundbreaking book that gives a voice and a vocabulary to one of the most transforming and powerful experiences in women's lives. If a century ago it was women's sexual desires that were unspeakable, today it is women's desire to mother that has become taboo. One hundred years of Freud and feminism have liberated women to acknowledge and explore their sexual selves, as well as their public and personal ambitions. What has remained inhibited is women's thinking about motherhood. Simplistic images of stay-at-home moms or career supermoms, along with endless debates about what is better for children, continue to obscure the profound meaning of mothering for many women, in all its chaos, complexity, and joy. Maternal Desire is the first book to treat women's desire to mother as a legitimate focus of intellectual inquiry and personal exploration. Shedding new light on old debates, Daphne de Marneffe provides an emotional road map for mothers who work and mothers who are at home. The book both explores the enjoyment and anxieties of motherhood and offers mothers in all situations valuable ways to think through their self-doubts and connect to their capacity for pleasure. Drawing on a rich tradition of writers such as Simone de Beauvoir, Adrienne Rich, Carol Gilligan, and Susan Faludi, as well as her experience as a psychologist and mother of three, de Marneffe illuminates how we, as individuals and as a society, express our desire to care for children. By treating maternal desire as a central feature of women's identity rather than as an inconvenient or slightly embarrassing detail, we can look with fresh insight at controversial issues such as child care, fertility, abortion, and the role of fathers. De Marneffe unearths ideas that have unwittingly shaped our inner lives, and offers women a more complete vision of liberation. Revolutionary and transforming, Maternal Desire is a book about ideas, a book about culture, and an invitation to self-reflection. Book jacket.

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Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316059951
ISBN-13
9780316059954
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2250189

Product Key Features

Book Title
Maternal Desire : on Children, Love, and the Inner Life
Author
Daphne De Marneffe
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Feminism & Feminist Theory, Parenting / General, General, Parenting / Motherhood
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Family & Relationships, Social Science
Number of Pages
384 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
23.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Hq759.D4 2004
Copyright Date
2004
Lccn
2003-056812
Dewey Decimal
306.874/3
Intended Audience
Young Adult Audience
Dewey Edition
22

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