Mothering without a Map: Becoming the Mother You Wish You'd Had - Hardcover

Black, Kathryn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670032662 ISBN 13: 9780670032662

Publisher: Viking Studio, 2005

Synopsis

The award-winning author of In the Shadow of Polio draws on research in the fields of psychology, social science, biology, and anthropology, as well as the experiences of ordinary women from across the country, to explore the reasons why some people are able to overcome their troubled childhoods to lead fulfilling lives and others are not.

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Synopsis:

An insightful and deeply hopeful book about how to become a good mother Every woman's most powerful maternal role model is her own mother. But what about women who grew up feeling "under-mothered" - whose mothers were absent, distracted, emotionally distant, depressed, or fell short in some vital way? How are they to become the good mothers they aspire to be? Kathryn Black, whose own mother's early death inspired her award-winning book, In the Shadow of Polio, probed for answers from experts in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, developmental psychology and social work, biology and anthropology. Black asks: Why are some people able to transcend troubled childhoods and lead satisfying lives and others are not? Through the voices of ordinary women across the country, in all stages and ages of mothering, she learns that there are ways to become a good mother without having had one of one's own. A beautifully articulate blend of memoir, research, and moving interviews with mothers and daughters, MOTHERING WITHOUT A MAP is a powerful and self-affirming book that shows how "wounded daughters" can indeed become "healing mothers."

About the Author:

Kathryn Black, a journalist for twenty years, is the author of In the Shadow of Polio, named by the Boston Globe as one of the ten best 1996 nonfiction works, winner of the Colorado Book Award for literary nonfiction, the June Roth Book Award for Health and Medical Writing, and a Denver Post bestseller. Black was named 1997 Author of the Year by the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Studio
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0670032662
• ISBN 13: 9780670032662
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288