Table of contents:
Preface to the paperback edition - who listens to mother's stories; the good plus the bad equals mother; resposibility gone awry; what is a self?; men's work and women's families; refusing to be a wife; if fathers are going to be important...intimacy with children; growing up, not apart; challenging cultural beliefs together.
Following her diagnosis with breast cancer, clinical psychologist Kathy Weingarten became acutely aware of deeply ingrained cultural messages about mothering that were limiting her ability to share emotional intimacy with her children under those crisis conditions. This discovery led Dr. Weingarten to question popular beliefs about what makes a "good mother," and to rethink the meanings of maternal self-disclosure and hierarchy within the family. Reworking the story of her motherhood, and her relationship to her own mother's story, she forged a new authenticity i her relationship with her son and daughter. The Mother's Voice tells us how. @1STPARA = A new preface to the paperback edition, written with characteristic humor and insight, updates readers on the author's continuing professional, theoretical, and personal transformations as she and her loved ones enter anew phase of living with her cancer.
Explores the question of when and how should mothers speak to their children about their own stories and feelings, or, more generally, about the the realities of life, power and death.
Preface to the paperback edition - who listens to mother's stories; the good plus the bad equals mother; resposibility gone awry; what is a self?; men's work and women's families; refusing to be a wife; if fathers are going to be important...intimacy with children; growing up, not apart; challenging cultural beliefs together.
Following her diagnosis with breast cancer, clinical psychologist Kathy Weingarten became acutely aware of deeply ingrained cultural messages about mothering that were limiting her ability to share emotional intimacy with her children under those crisis conditions. This discovery led Dr. Weingarten to question popular beliefs about what makes a "good mother," and to rethink the meanings of maternal self-disclosure and hierarchy within the family. Reworking the story of her motherhood, and her relationship to her own mother's story, she forged a new authenticity i her relationship with her son and daughter. The Mother's Voice tells us how. @1STPARA = A new preface to the paperback edition, written with characteristic humor and insight, updates readers on the author's continuing professional, theoretical, and personal transformations as she and her loved ones enter anew phase of living with her cancer.
Explores the question of when and how should mothers speak to their children about their own stories and feelings, or, more generally, about the the realities of life, power and death.