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Title: Maternal Desire: On Children, Love, and the Inner Life by Daphne de Marneffe, Daphne de Marneffe ISBN: 0-316-05995-1 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 22 March, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: All Mothers -To-Be and Mothers Should Read This
Comment: A extraordinarily well-written and perceptive book. DeMarneffe combines her skills as a psychologist with her heartfelt understanding of motherhood. I took it with me to Mexico, assuming that I'd never touch it on vacation, and found the book so engaging that I read the entire book in four days.
Whether you're a parent at home, just contemplating motherhood, or deciding whether to return to work after your baby is born, this is an important book to have under your belt.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Enriching Read
Comment: In Maternal Desire DeMarneffe does for mothering what Freud did for sexuality-acknowledges its power as a driver of human thought and action. A veritable tour de force of the feminist, psychological and cultural literature on mothering, Maternal Desire filters several centuries of thought on the subject through the concept of women's innate desire to raise, not simply bear, young. Although this premise seems surprisingly simple, DeMarneffe correctly points out that it has been almost an unmentionable in contemporary society. The book is also somewhat unique in that it doesn't argue for or against working mothers, but rather that we consider maternal desire in the work/life balance equation. I found this book extremely thoughtful and reading it an enriching experience.
Rating: 5
Summary: LOOK AT THE OTHER REVIEWS, BUT THIS ONE REVIEWS IT THE BEST
Comment: I did a review on a another book and I suggested this book in another book review that I did a week ago. Blossoming Beauty: Well Being and Beauty during Pregnancy, by Jo Glanville-Blackburn.
WOW, what a book it was. I learnt a more then the other books I read on this subject, still have to read Sarah Blaffer-Hrdy's Mother Nature: Maternal Insticts and How They Shape Human Species, then I will review afterwards.
My only complient about the book was the it was how was written for the general public and the subject on the front cover, it was about it, but more subjects in that field.
I wonder if Dr. De Marneffe read Naomi Wolf's recent work, which I also suggested as well in that review, Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on to the Journey of Motherhood, published by Doubleday (hardcover), then Anchor Books (paperback), 2001 and 2003.
I feel that women from mid to late teens to old age (depends on the old age part it of course).
Thank you.
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Title: The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined Women by Susan Douglas, Meredith Michaels ISBN: 0743259998 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 09 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other) Minute of It by Andrea J. Buchanan ISBN: 1580050824 Publisher: Seal Press (WA) Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect Life : Or How I Learned to Love the House, the Man, the Child by FAULKNER FOX ISBN: 1400049393 Publisher: Harmony Pub. Date: 23 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: I Don't Know How She Does It by ALLISON PEARSON ISBN: 0375713751 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The New Wife: The Evolving Role of the American Wife by Susan Shapiro Barash ISBN: 1932053085 Publisher: Nonetheless Press Pub. Date: 14 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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