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A review by lifeinpoetry
Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty by Jacqueline Rose
4.0
3.5
Mostly wish there'd been more, this felt like a beginning. I ended up buying a book by Sindiwe Magona whose story story was discussed here as an example of a character who abandons her babies due to socioeconomic reasons. Medea, of course, features but I was hungry for even more perspectives outside the usual Western canon. There are acknowledgements of its limitations but with the one word main title (ignoring the subtitle) I was hoping.
Mostly wish there'd been more, this felt like a beginning. I ended up buying a book by Sindiwe Magona whose story story was discussed here as an example of a character who abandons her babies due to socioeconomic reasons. Medea, of course, features but I was hungry for even more perspectives outside the usual Western canon. There are acknowledgements of its limitations but with the one word main title (ignoring the subtitle) I was hoping.