Author: Lola M. Schaefer
Publisher: Capstone Pre
Keywords: families, mothers
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 142961756X
ISBN-13: 9781429617567
Simple text and photographs present mothers and how they interact with their families
Author: Babette Smith
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited (Australia)
Keywords: sons, mothers
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 1997-05-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1864482222
ISBN-13: 9781864482225
Based on frank and revealing interviews with mothers and sons of all ages, Babette Smith’s ground-breaking book tells the truth about this crucial relationship. She probes behind the myths and the silences to uncover some surprising answers.Many middle-aged sons confess to being bored in their mother’s company. Many say they felt unloved as children, but have forgotten that masculine pressures made them reject their mother’s affection. On the other hand, mothers are afraid of being too possessive, too seductive or too domineering with their sons.Today’s young sons often
Author: Colm Toibi
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: stories, sons, mothers
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-01-02
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 1416534652
ISBN-13: 9781416534655
The nine stories in Mothers and Sons examine in depth some of the ways that the bond that is forged--or not--between mothers and their sons is altered, re-formed, or broken forever. In The Master, his fictionalized life of Henry James, Tobn made the reader see and understand the writer more fully than ever before. Similarly, these new stories look at relationships between fully formed adults and, with a few deft strokes, make clear what their mutual history has brought them to. In most cases, they must deal with loss, while trying to grasp the complexities of that sometimes precarious balanc
Author: Colm Toibi
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: stories, sons, mothers
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1416534660
ISBN-13: 9781416534662
The nine stories in Mothers and Sons examine in depth some of the ways that the bond that is forged--or not--between mothers and their sons is altered, re-formed, or broken forever. In The Master, his fictionalized life of Henry James, Tobn made the reader see and understand the writer more fully than ever before. Similarly, these new stories look at relationships between fully formed adults and, with a few deft strokes, make clear what their mutual history has brought them to. In most cases, they must deal with loss, while trying to grasp the complexities of that sometimes precarious balanc
Author: Peg Stree
Publisher: William Morrow
Keywords: hurt, legacy, overcoming, mothers
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-10-01
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0061651362
ISBN-13: 9780061651366
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 storiesmany unloving mothers are the daughters of unloving or hypercritical womenand 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 M
Author: Maureen F. McHugh
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Keywords: stories, monsters, amp, mothers
Number of Pages: 271
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1931520194
ISBN-13: 9781931520195
In her luminous collection of short stories, Maureen F. McHugh wryly and delicately examines the impacts of social and technological shifts on families. Using beautiful, deceptively simple prose, she illuminates the relationship between parents and children and the expected and unexpected chasms that open between generations. A woman has to introduce her new lover to her late brother. A teenager is interviewed about her peer groups attitude to sex . . . and baby boomers. A missing stepson sets a marriage on edge. McHughs characters, her Alzheimersafflicted parents or her smart, rebellious te
Author: Bonnie Angelo
Publisher: Harper Paperback
Keywords: presidents, shaped, women, mothers, first
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0060937114
ISBN-13: 9780060937119
Bonnie Angelo, a veteran reporter and writer for Time, has captured the daily lives, thoughts, and feelings of the remarkable women who played such a large role in developing the characters of the modern American presidents. From formidably aristocratic Sara Delano Roosevelt to diehard Democrat Martha Truman, champion athlete Dorothy Bush, and hard-living Virginia Clinton Kelley, Angelo blends these women’s stories with the texture of their lives and with colorful details of their times. First Mothers is an in-depth look at the special mother-son relationships that nurtured and helped pr
