Mothering Without A Map: The Search for the Good Mother Within
by Kathryn Black
Book Summary Information
Author: Kathryn BlackEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-02-22
ISBN: 0143034863
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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- Braun IRT 4020 ThermoScan Ear Thermometer
- Health o Meter HDC100-01 "Grow with Me" Teddy Bear Scale for Babies and Toddlers
Book Reviews of Mothering Without A Map: The Search for the Good Mother Within
Book Review: Insightful and practical
Summary: 5 Stars
I recommend without equivocation. "Mothering Without a Map" by Kathryn Black is not only well written -- excellent structure, suspenseful writing -- it is eye-opening in its conclusions. It goes beyond the thesis in "Motherless Daughters." Even if you had/have an excellent mother, and even if you like your own mothering style, I guarantee there will moments of insight for you.
Most of all I marvel at Black's balance in her information; under any other writer, this book would feel like the usual blame-the-mother for all of the world's ills. But Black, through humor and empathy, makes the deficits all mothers have surmountable and understandable.
Plus, you've got to see this bibliography at the end of book --
thousands of sources.
Summary of Mothering Without A Map: The Search for the Good Mother Within
Every woman longs to be a good mother. But what about those women who grew up "undermothered"-whose own mothers were well-meaning but unavailable, absent, distracted, or depressed? How are they to become the good mothers they aspire to be?In this beautifully articulate book, Kathryn Black, whose own mother's early death inspired her award-winning In the Shadow of Polio, offers affirming news: One doesn't have to have had a good mother to become one. Probing for answers from experts in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, social work, biology, and other disciplines, Black reveals that there are other paths to discovering the good mother within. This moving and powerful book shows how "wounded daughters" can become "healing mothers" who give their own children a legacy of security, happiness, and love.
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