The existential crisis of motherhood
This collection of essays analyzes the experience of women in Weimar and Nazi Germany -- the first a period of crisis and polarization between right and left, and the second a period in which the right triumphed. The history documented in this book provides us with a perspective…
This collection of essays analyzes the experience of women in Weimar and Nazi Germany -- the first a period of crisis and polarization between right and left, and the second a period in which the right triumphed. The history documented in this book provides us with a perspective…
"An original reading of Shakespeare's plays illuminating his negotiations with mothers, present and absent, and tracing the genesis of Shakespearean tragedy and romance to a psychologized version of the Fall."--Publisher's description.
Traces the rewards and pitfalls of a Chinese mother's exercise in extreme parenting, describing the exacting standards applied to grades, music lessons, and avoidance of Western cultural practices.
In his essay on the "Notebooks of Tennessee Williams", Colm Toibin reveals an artist 'alone and deeply fearful and unusually selfish' and one profoundly tormented by his sister's mental illness. Through the relationship between W.B. Yeats and his father or Thomas Mann and his ch…
In his essay on the "Notebooks of Tennessee Williams", Colm Toibin reveals an artist 'alone and deeply fearful and unusually selfish' and one profoundly tormented by his sister's mental illness. Through the relationship between W.B. Yeats and his father or Thomas Mann and his ch…
"In the early twentieth-century United States, to speak of "mother love" was to invoke an idea of motherhood that served as an all-encompassing identity, rooted in notions of self-sacrifice and infused with powerful social and political meanings. Sixty years later, mainstream vi…
"For pregnant women in the 1940s and 50s, Dr. Grantly Dick-Read (1890-1959) proposed natural childbirth as the "normal" way to have babies, making drugs, instruments, and even hospitalization unnecessary. His book, first published in Great Britain in 1942 as Revelation of Childb…
Noch mal ganz von vorne beginnen - für den Rest des Lebens. Zeruya Shalev erzählt von unserer schicksalhafte Gebundenheit an Ort, Zeit und vor allem an die Familie, in die wir geboren sind: Je größer die Fliehkräfte von Wut, Enttäuschung und Trauer, umso stärker ist ihre Anziehu…
