The baby on the fire escape: Creativity, motherhood, and the mind-baby problem

An insightful and provocative exploration of the relationship between motherhood and art through the lives of women artists and writers. What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own," but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the F...

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1. Verfasser: Phillips, Julie (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York W. W. Norton & Company 2022
Ausgabe:Advance reading copy
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Zusammenfassung:An insightful and provocative exploration of the relationship between motherhood and art through the lives of women artists and writers. What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own," but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and creativity converge. With fierce empathy and vivid prose, Phillips evokes the intimate struggles of brilliant artists and writers, including Doris Lessing, who had to choose between her motherhood and herself; Ursula K. Le Guin, who found productive stability in family life; Audre Lorde, whose queer, polyamorous union allowed her to raise children on her own terms; and Alice Neel, who once, to finish a painting, was said to have left her baby on the fire escape of her New York apartment. A meditation on maternal identity and artistic greatness, The Baby on the Fire Escape illuminates some of the most pressing conflicts in contemporary women's lives
Beschreibung:"Advance reading copy - Not for sale" -- Front cover
"Advance uncorrected proofs - Please do not quote for publication without checking against the finished book." -- Back cover
"April 2022 - $27.95 hardcover (Can. $36.95) - CQ 24 - Territory W - ISBN 978-0-393-08859-5 - Galley ISBN 978-0-393-87332-0 - 6" x 9" - 336 pages - Social Science" -- Back cover
Beschreibung:311 Seiten Illustrationen, Porträts (schwarz-weiß) 23 cm
ISBN:9780393088595

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