The monster within : the hidden side of motherhood / Barbara Almond.
Whether it is uncertainty over having a child, fears of pregnancy and childbirth, or negative thoughts about one's own children, mixed feelings about motherhood are not just hard to discuss, they are a powerful social taboo. In this beautifully written book, Barbara Almond draws on her extensiv...
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Table of Contents:
- The ubiquity of maternal ambivalence
- Motherlove: the power of maternal desire
- The subtle ambivalence of the too-good mother
- "Before the beginning": women's fears of monstrous births
- Women's reproductive fears: more clinical examples
- Rachel's story: internalized ambivalence and the dangers of hidden guilt
- Whose fault is it? The externalization of ambivalence
- When fears are realized
- From the child's point of view
- Vampyric mothering: from stage moms to invasive moms
- The darkest side of motherhood: child murder
- What happens later: the fate of maternal ambivalence
- What's a mother to do?