- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (3 Aug 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415170842
- ISBN-13: 978-0415170840
- Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 2.3 x 0.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 319,548 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Mothering the Self boldly reassesses female bonds, mothering and femininity. It offers a springboard for studies incorporating culture, ethnicity, geography and generation. I highly recommend it' - Gender & Education
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The mother-daughter relationship has preoccupied feminist writers for decades, but typically it has been the daughter's story at centre-stage. Mothering the Self brings together these maternal and daughterly stories by drawing on in-depth interviews with women who speak both as mothers and as daughters.
This study examines the ways in which these mothers and daughters participate in their understanding of class, gender, and race locations, both using and resisting them. The result is a fresh start from which to consider the far-reaching implications of this relationship - not simply for mothers and daughters, but in terms of how we understand the shaping of the self and its place within the social world.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Just read it. Anyone who is or is thinking of becoming, a mother, of a son or daughter, and anyone who has felt that the parenting they received was in some way inadequate or has looked to psychotherapy or self help for answers would benefit from reading this book which picks apart the mythology of mothering and exposes the raw power dynamics which lie beneath our everyday lives... Not only mothering and issues to do with being female but also to do with parenting in general and to do with class and other contributing factors, this book actually looks at our wider social environment rather than simplifying everything and blaming everything on individual psychology or intimate or family relationship dynamics...
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One of the best books I have ever read on mothering
27 Jan 2004
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Lawler's work on the mother-daughter relationship combines the highest standards of academic scholarship with a deft craft of sociology so often missing from social research. The result is a highly informed study, drawing on a wide canvas of social theory, of social relationships which we so often take for granted. Lawler achieves the sociological imperative: to detail the mundane; to problematize the ordinary. The work avoids many of the clichés that are common to an analysis of gender and social class by continually returning to the narratives provided by the group of women who remain the centre of the study (themselves both mothers and daughters). In doing this, Lawler avoids any tendency towards theorizing 'above and beyond' the women's lives. The result is a fascinating account of how the social world impacts upon, and organizes, our social relationships. I was struck by the way in which Lawler successfully criticises the prevailing view that it is our individual psychology or innate subjectivities that construct our relationships. On the contrary, she argues, it is our place within the social world which delimits and structures our ways of being. But I was also very pleased to see that Lawler had accounted for subjectivity as itself a form of agency and, therefore, not reduced individuals to 'cultural dupes'. The work is valuable because it offers us, as mothers and daughters, ways of understanding how the personal and the political (the social and the individual) structure our everyday lives. If you read this book, 'self help' manuals just won't be the same again!
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