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The woman who gave birth to her mother : tales of women in transformation
- Title
- The woman who gave birth to her mother : tales of women in transformation / Kim Chernin.
- Author
- Chernin, Kim.
- Publication
- New York : Viking, 1998.
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- Description
- xx, 219 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Chernin explores the stages of change through which women travel, from idealization of the past and revising it: blaming the mother and forgiving her, letting go of her and, ultimately, giving birth to a new self.
- Chernin's tales of women's transformations are arresting and full of depth: one woman, adopted as a child, embarks on a journey to locate her birth mother; another finds the source of a voice that haunts her - the voice of her daughter, given up at birth; a third unlocks her own creative process and paints her way out of a painful symbiosis. Framing these stories is the narrative of Chernin's relationship with her own daughter and the insights won from three generations of women in her family.
- Subject
- ISBN
- 0670880965 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 98011417
- OCLC
- 504085540
- ocn504085540
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries