02022cam a2200313 i 4500 345945480 TxAuBib 20180529120000.0 171201s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017055261 9780374213794 26.00 0374213798 26.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda Rose, Jacqueline. Mothers [BOOK] : an essay on love and cruelty / Jacqueline Rose. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. ix, 237 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Originally published in 2018 by Faber & Faber Ltd., Great Britain" -Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-228) and index. Social punishment -- Now -- Then -- Psychic blindness -- Loving -- Hating -- The agony and the ecstasy -- Elena Ferrante -- Inside-out -- Coda -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index. A 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. Mothers 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 Matilda to 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. Provided by publisher. 20180529. Mothers Psychology. Parenting. Motherhood.