Drawing on the voices and experiences of the working class mothers who are frequently treated by the tabloids as a threat to civilisation, this book examines how such mothers make sense of their lives with their children and families.
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Drawing on the voices and experiences of the working class mothers who are frequently treated by the tabloids as a threat to civilisation, this book examines how such mothers make sense of their lives with their children and families.
In the 1940s film Now, Voyager, Bette Davis plays a daughter struggling against her mother's stifling repression. Nearly fifty years later, in the Hollywood saga Postcards from the Edge, Shirley MacLaine, as a neglectful and bossy mother, inflicts untold psychological pain on he…
Exploring the psychology of violent and criminal women, this text draws upon psychodynamic and criminological perspectives of female offending, and the link between childhood experience and adult behaviour is expounded.
This study explores the mother-daughter relationship as the most fundamental and most intimate female relationship and as the cornerstone of Arab family life. Drawing on autobiographical and semi-fictional works by women writers from across the Arab world, the study offers a fir…
Starke Freunde: Kenny und Kerstin sind gute Freunde, bei denen es zu Hause mehr als schlecht geht. Kerstins Mutter ist seit dem Verschwinden des Vaters Alkoholikerin und Kennies depressive Mutter wird in eine psychiatrische Klinik eingewiesen. Aus Angst, vom Jugendamt in eine Pf…
Sexuality, motherhood and marriage were matters of public policy throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They were prominent areas in the regulation of women, but the idea that the law merely reflected what was normal and natural obscured the extent of this regu…
In an effort to disentangle motherhood from idealized notions of the Jewish family, this book presents new perspectives on Jewish mothers by examining them in an array of time periods and social, religious, literary and historical contexts. This collection of articles also grant…
"This volume deals with the female dynasty of the House of David and its influence on the Jewish Messianic Myth. It provides a missing link in the chain of research on the topic of messianism and contributes to the understanding of the connection between female transgression and…