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Mother Reader

Essential Writings on Motherhood

ISBN-13: 9781583220726

Contributor(s): Moyra Davey

Subjects: Gender Studies: Women

Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Publisher Imprint: Seven Stories Press

Publication Date: 05-07-2001

Format: Paperback

Availability: In stock

£19.99

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About the book

This anthology of writings on motherhood turns the spotlight away from the child to the mother herself. Memoirs, testimonials, diaries, essays and fiction describe the powerful changes brought into these writers' lives by pregnancy, childbirth and mothering. Contributors include Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood, Ursula Leguin, Grace Paley and Alice Walker. The editor is a photographer for The New York Times.

Mother Reader

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