Mothers, Fathers, and Others

''Dizzyingly flexible, deeply human, often funny, it blasts aside our preconceptions and urges us to see the world as it is'' i

Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in Siri Hustvedt''s most personal essay collection yet, a scintillating and profound exploration of motherhood, the maternal and misogyny.

Ranging across artistic mothers such as Jane Austen and Louise Bourgeois, psychoanalysis, scie...