Mothers, fathers, and others : essays / Siri Hustvedt.

Title:

ISBN:

9781982176396

Personal Author:

Hustvedt, Siri

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021.

Physical Description:

x, 285 pages ; 24 cm

Contents:

Tillie -- My mother's ocean and how it became mine -- Stones and ashes -- A walk with my mother -- States of mind -- Mentor ghosts -- Open borders -- Notes from New York -- Reading during the plague -- When I met you I saw myself as another -- Future of literature -- Translation stories -- Sinbad variations -- He dropped his pen -- Enigma of reading -- Living thing -- Visiting St. Francis -- Both-and -- What does a man want? -- Scapegoat.

Summary:

In this essay collection in which feminist philosophy meets family memoir, the novelist and scholar moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to connect mothers to the broader meanings of maternity in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority.

Personal Subject:

Hustvedt, Siri-Family.

Hustvedt, Sirifst. (OCoLC)01477021

Subject Term:

Motherhood

Genre:

Essays

Added Author:

Container of (work): Hustvedt, Siri. Tillie.

Container of (work): Hustvedt, Siri. My mother's ocean and how it became mine.

Container of (work): Hustvedt, Siri. Stones and ashes.

Container of (work): Hustvedt, Siri. Walk with my mother.