![]() ![]() However, on a personal level, especially as a mother to sons, as Rich is, I found that what she had to say resonated. I will be dealing with this book in greater detail as I begin to write my doctoral thesis, so this is not an academic review of the issues that she addresses. She is very careful to distinguish between the two meanings of motherhood that she discusses: ‘one superimposed on the other: the potential relationship of any woman to her powers of reproduction and to children and the institution, which aims at ensuring that that potential – and all women – shall remain under male control.’ In making this distinction, she begins to tear away at the conflict that all women who become mothers face. It is a book about motherhood – the author’s experience of it, her view on motherhood as a social institution, and it is a book about being a mother – or not – and how that impacts on women. ![]() ![]() This book is one that I should have read a long time ago. ![]()
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