My Mother/my Self

1994 Families

Author : Nancy Friday
Release : 1994
Genre : Families
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Book Rating : 515/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book My Mother/my Self written by Nancy Friday. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Friday shows that the key to a woman's character lies in her relationship with her mother - that first binding relationship which becomes the model for so much of women's adult relationships with men, and whose fetters constrain her sexuality, independence and very selfhood.

Misgivings

2014-09-09 Biography & Autobiography

Author : C. K. Williams
Release : 2014-09-09
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 600/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Misgivings written by C. K. Williams. This book was released on 2014-09-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intense, refractory memoir by a major poet Misgivings is C. K. Williams's searing recollection of his family's extreme dynamics and of his parents' deaths after years of struggle, bitterness, and inner conflict. Like Kafka's self-revealing Letter to His Father, Misgivings is full of doubt, both philosophical and personal, but as a work of art it is sure and true. Williams's father was an "ordinary businessman"--angry, demanding, addicted to the tension he created with the people he loved; a man who could read the Greek myths aloud to his son yet vowed never to apologize to anybody. His mother was a housewife, a woman with a great capacity for pleasure, who was stoical about the family's dire early poverty yet remained affected by it even when they became well-off. Together, these two formed what Williams calls the "conspiracy that made me who I am." His account of their life together and their deaths--his father's with suicidal despair, and his mother's with calm resignation--is a literary form of the reconciliation the family achieved at the end of his parents' lives. And as literary form it is novel, a series of brilliant short takes, a double helix of experience and recollection. Few contemporary writers have understood their origins so acutely, or so eloquently.

My Mother, My Mirror

2009 Family & Relationships

Author : Laura Fuerstein
Release : 2009
Genre : Family & Relationships
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Book Rating : 697/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book My Mother, My Mirror written by Laura Fuerstein. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An experienced psychotherapist explores how mothers unwittingly pass on their self-esteem and body image issues to their daughters and shows readers how they can break the cycle.

Are You My Mother?

2012-05-01 Comics & Graphic Novels

Author : Alison Bechdel
Release : 2012-05-01
Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
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Book Rating : 366/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Are You My Mother? written by Alison Bechdel. This book was released on 2012-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling graphic memoir about Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home, becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood…and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel’s own (serially monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back to Mother—to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers. A New York Times, USA Today, Time, Slate, and Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year “As complicated, brainy, inventive and satisfying as the finest prose memoirs.”—New York Times Book Review “A work of the most humane kind of genius, bravely going right to the heart of things: why we are who we are. It's also incredibly funny. And visually stunning. And page-turningly addictive. And heartbreaking.”—Jonathan Safran Foer “Many of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers. Alison Bechdel has written a graphic novel about this; sort of like a comic book by Virginia Woolf. You won't believe it until you read it—and you must!”—Gloria Steinem

My Mother My Hero

2021-11-11 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Lynn Smith
Release : 2021-11-11
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 303/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book My Mother My Hero written by Lynn Smith. This book was released on 2021-11-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother’s love is always for her children no matter how good or bad and she would do anything for her children either one or ten children, I always said the hardest job in the world is raising children from sun up to sun down or a woman’s job is never easy I think it’s time for men to stand up for the hard working women or men who raise God’s precious angels.

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