A Potent Spell: Mother Love and the Power of Fear Paperback - 2004
by Smith, Janna Malamud
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An intriguing exploration of the psychology of mothering, A Potent Spell demonstrates how a mother's deep, abiding drive to protect and care for a child has created a profound, and often exploited, vulnerability in women. With historical evidence, interviews, and personal experience, the psychotherapist Janna Malamud Smith brings a rich sensibility and rare intelligence to this subject.
No mother will be a stranger to the guilt, fear, and worry surrounding the effort to keep her child safe. Smith centers her book on these rip-tide emotions and their manipulation by American society and media. Groundbreaking and thoroughly illuminating, A Potent Spell "should cast a beacon upon a history of prejudice and bad science" (San Francisco Chronicle).
No mother will be a stranger to the guilt, fear, and worry surrounding the effort to keep her child safe. Smith centers her book on these rip-tide emotions and their manipulation by American society and media. Groundbreaking and thoroughly illuminating, A Potent Spell "should cast a beacon upon a history of prejudice and bad science" (San Francisco Chronicle).
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- Title A Potent Spell: Mother Love and the Power of Fear
- Author Smith, Janna Malamud
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 289
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
- Date 2004
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0618446737I4N10
- ISBN 9780618446735 / 0618446737
- Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 8.78 x 5.76 x 0.82 in (22.30 x 14.63 x 2.08 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002027632
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.874
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Summary
An intriguing exploration of the psychology of mothering, A Potent Spell demonstrates how a mother's deep, abiding drive to protect and care for a child has created a profound, and often exploited, vulnerability in women. With historical evidence, interviews, and personal experience, the psychotherapist Janna Malamud Smith brings a rich sensibility and rare intelligence to this subject.
No mother will be a stranger to the guilt, fear, and worry surrounding the effort to keep her child safe. Smith centers her book on these rip-tide emotions and their manipulation by American society and media. Groundbreaking and thoroughly illuminating, A Potent Spell "should cast a beacon upon a history of prejudice and bad science" (San Francisco Chronicle).
No mother will be a stranger to the guilt, fear, and worry surrounding the effort to keep her child safe. Smith centers her book on these rip-tide emotions and their manipulation by American society and media. Groundbreaking and thoroughly illuminating, A Potent Spell "should cast a beacon upon a history of prejudice and bad science" (San Francisco Chronicle).
First line
GROWING UP, I did not think a lot about becoming a mother.
