The author, psychoanalyst Barbara Almond, argues that all mothers have monstrous feelings, that they 'experience a mixture of loving and hating feelings toward their children. A savoir, il traite explicitement du scepticisme à propos des traditions dominantes et de la diversité des thèmes différents à ce que l'on appelle aujourd'hui les études sur la maternité. The Monster Within: the Hidden Side of Motherhood is a captivating and provocative book. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability.
La sélection choisie des nouvelles canadiennes, « The Baby » (Craig Boyko), « Pest Control for DummiesTM » (Zsuzsi Gartner) et « Split » (Clea Young), traite le thème de la maternité à travers des divers examens d'identités personnelles, principalement des personnages féminins. The Monster Within ebook &mid The Hidden Side of Motherhood By Barbara Almond. Additionally, the paper investigates how three different authors, incidentally in the same collection of short stories, treat the discourse on motherhood.
The primary focus of the paper is to examine how the culturally constructed concept of motherhood, as inseparable from the concept of womanhood, affects individual female identity. Namely, this selection explicitly deals with skepticism about prevalent traditions and the diverse body of themes pertaining to what is nowadays known as motherhood studies. The chosen selection of Canadian short stories – Craig Boyko's "The Baby" and Clea Young's "Split", both published in the Journey Prize Stories 2006, and Zsuzsi Gartner's "Pest Control for DummiesTM", published in the collection All the Anxious Girls on Earth (2000) – deals with the theme of motherhood through various examinations of the personal identities of, mostly, female characters. However, as California psychiatrist and author Barbara Almond points out in her book about 'the hidden side of motherhood,' ambivalence is a normal part of every intense and powerful relationship.
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