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Mean Mothers : Overcoming the Legacy of Hurt by Peg Streep (2009, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100061651362
ISBN-139780061651366
eBay Product ID (ePID)72057812
Product Key Features
Book TitleMean Mothers : Overcoming the Legacy of Hurt
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicParenting / Motherhood, Dysfunctional Families, Personal Growth / Self-Esteem
Publication Year2009
GenreFamily & Relationships, Self-Help
AuthorPeg Streep
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight14.4 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2009-013160
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal155.6/463
SynopsisDrawn from research and the real-life experiences of adult daughters, Mean Mothers illuminates one of the last cultural taboos: what happens when a woman does not or cannot love her own daughter. Peg Streep, co-author of the highly acclaimed Girl in the Mirror, has subtitled this important, eye-opening exploration of the darker side of maternal behavior, "Overcoming the Legacy of Hurt." There are no psychopathic child abusers in Mean Mothers . Instead, this essential volume focuses on the more subtle forms of psychological damage inflicted by mothers on their unappreciated daughters--and offers help and support to those women who were forced to suffer a parent's cruelty and neglect., An exploration of the darker side of maternal behavior drawn from scientific research, psychology, and the real-life experiences of adult daughters, Mean Mothers sheds light on one of the last cultural taboos: what happens when a woman doesn't or can't love her daughter. Mean Mothers reveals the multigenerational thread that often runs through these stories-many unloving mothers are the daughters of unloving or hypercritical women-and explores what happens to a daughter's sense of self and to her relationships when her mother is emotionally absent or even cruel. But Mean Mothers is also a narrative of hope, recounting how daughters can get past the legacy of hurt to become whole within and to become loving mothers to the next generation of daughters. The personal stories of unloved daughters and sons and those of the author herself, are both unflinching and moving, and bring this most difficult of subjects to life. Mean Mothers isn't just a book for daughters who've had difficult or impossible relationships with their mothers. By exposing the myths of motherhood that prevent us from talking about the women for whom mothering a daughter is fraught with ambivalence, tension, or even jealousy, Mean Mothers also casts a different light on the extraordinary influence mothers have over their female children as well as the psychological complexity and emotional depth of the mother-daughter relationship., You won't find horror stories of outrageous abuse in Mean Mothers. But that's one of Peg Steep's clearest messages: that while the most sensational stories get the most attention in the media, little is said about those mothers who, despite their picket fences, relative affluence, and middle-class standing in society, are unable or unwilling to love the daughters they have given birth to. Mean Mothers 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. Based in the latest research as well as interviews with experts in many fields, the book draws on the real-life experiences of adult daughters, including those of the author herself, who have tried to come to terms with the emotional and psychological legacies their mothers bequeathed them. With its unflinching look at what can go wrong when a mother doesn't love her child, Mean Mothers can help every woman--even those blessed with loving mothers--better understand this most central of female relationships.
LC Classification NumberHQ755.85.S77 2009
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