An Essay on Love and Cruelty
by
Jacqueline Rose
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
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...