101 records matched your query       

Author:

Hustvedt, Siri, author.

Title:

Mothers, fathers, and others : essays / Siri Hustvedt.

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

x, 285 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Hustvedt, Siri--Family.
Motherhood.
Essays.

Other Titles:

Essays. Selections

Contents:

Scapegoat. My mother's ocean and how it became mine -- Stones and ashes -- A walk with my mother -- States of mind -- Mentor ghosts -- Open borders -- Notes from New York -- Reading during the plague -- When I met you I saw myself as another -- The future of literature -- Translation stories -- The sinbad variations -- He dropped his pen -- The enigma of reading -- Living thing -- Visiting St. Francis -- Both-and -- What does a man want? -- Scapegoat.

Summary:

In this essay collection in which feminist philosophy meets family memoir, the novelist and scholar moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to connect mothers to the broader meanings of maternity in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority.

ISBN:

1982176393
9781982176396

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1287262568

LCCN:

2021029627

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

CPPC926 -- Kalona Public Library (Kalona)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)