Mean mothers : overcoming the legacy of hurt

Author

Peg Streep

Call Number

• 155.6463 S914 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : William Morrow, c2009.

Physical Description

xi, 235 p. ; 24 cm.

Summary

Demonstrates what happens to a daughter's formulation of self and her relationships when her mother is either emotionally absent or, worse, cruel and unloving.

Contents

• The myth of mother love
• My mother and her mother before her : patterns old and new
• In the house of the father : heroes and coconspirators
• Siblings and other rivalries
• Stilling the voice of the mother within : the battle for self-worth
• Turning the wheel : mothering the next generation.