Mean Mothers : Overcoming the Legacy of Hurt Hardcover - 2009
by Peg Streep
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- Good
- Hardcover
An exploration of the darker side of maternal behavior drawn from research and the real-life experiences of adult daughters, "Mean Mothers" illuminates one of the last cultural taboos: what happens when a woman doesn't or can't love her daughter.
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- Title Mean Mothers : Overcoming the Legacy of Hurt
- Author Peg Streep
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, NYC
- Date 2009
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0061651362I3N10
- ISBN 9780061651366 / 0061651362
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9.32 x 6.52 x 0.93 in (23.67 x 16.56 x 2.36 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Topical: Self-Esteem
- Topical: Women's Interest
- Library of Congress subjects Mothers and daughters, Love, Maternal
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009013160
- Dewey Decimal Code 155.646
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An exploration of the darker side of maternal behavior drawn from scientific research, psychology, and the real-life experiences of adult daughters, Mean Mothers sheds light on one of the last cultural taboos: what happens when a woman doesn't or can't love her daughter.
Mean Mothers reveals the multigenerational thread that often runs through these stories--many unloving mothers are the daughters of unloving or hypercritical women--and explores what happens to a daughter's sense of self and to her relationships when her mother is emotionally absent or even cruel. But Mean Mothers is also a narrative of hope, recounting how daughters can get past the legacy of hurt to become whole within and to become loving mothers to the next generation of daughters. The personal stories of unloved daughters and sons and those of the author herself, are both unflinching and moving, and bring this most difficult of subjects to life.
Mean Mothers isn't just a book for daughters who've had difficult or impossible relationships with their mothers. By exposing the myths of motherhood that prevent us from talking about the women for whom mothering a daughter is fraught with ambivalence, tension, or even jealousy, Mean Mothers also casts a different light on the extraordinary influence mothers have over their female children as well as the psychological complexity and emotional depth of the mother-daughter relationship.
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Citations
- BookPage, 11/01/2009, Page 0
- Library Journal Annex, 09/28/2009, Page 0