{"product_id":"mothers-an-essay-on-love-and-cruelty-paperback","title":"Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJacqueline Rose\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA daring and provocative book-length essay on why we both romanticize and vilify mothers\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA simple argument guides this book: motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge, or rather bury, the reality of our own conflicts. By making mothers the objects of both licensed idealization and cruelty, we blind ourselves to the world's iniquities and shut down the portals of the heart. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMothers are the ultimate scapegoat for our personal and political failings, for everything that is wrong with the world, which becomes their task (unrealizable, of course) to repair. Moving commandingly between pop cultural references such as Roald Dahl's \u003ci\u003eMatilda \u003c\/i\u003eto insights on motherhood in the ancient world and the contemporary stigmatization of single mothers, Jacqueline Rose delivers a groundbreaking report into something so prevalent we hardly notice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMothers \u003c\/i\u003eis an incisive, rousing call to action from one of our most important contemporary thinkers.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacqueline Rose\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of numerous books about feminism, psychoanalysis, literature and culture and the Middle East, including \u003ci\u003eWomen in Dark Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Haunting of Sylvia Plath\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Question of Zion\u003c\/i\u003e. She is Codirector of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, cofounder of Independent Jewish Voices, and a fellow of the British Academy. Rose is a frequent contributor to the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, among many other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 254\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 8.25 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 21, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45335959339110,"sku":"9780374538477","price":29.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/TWNhK2lQdERjNE1qM3REc0JCTis4dz09.webp?v=1774597770","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/mothers-an-essay-on-love-and-cruelty-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}