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The Anchor Of My Life: Middleclass American Mothers And Daughters, 18801920 (History Of Emotions, 1),New
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Relying on women's own words in letters and journals, Rosenzweig refutes the prescriptive literature of the times with its dire predictions of inevitable rifts between Victorian mothers and their daughters, the new women of the twentieth century. Instead Rosenzweig shows us mothers who rejoiced in their daughters' educational successes and, while they did not always comprehend the nature of the changes taking place, were only too happy to see their daughters escape some of their own restrictions and grief.Extremely useful to scholars and teachers of women's history and family history, The Anchor of My Life should also be fascinating to the general public for the accurate window that it provides on these complicated family relationship in our history.Laurie Crumpacker , Department of History, Simmons College'Drawing on a broad array of historical sources, The Anchor of My Lifechallenges the common assumption that motherdaughter relationships invariably are characterized by tensions and conflicts. This lively and moving book deserves a wide audience.'Emily K. Abel , author of Circles of Care: Work and Identity in Women's LivesThe relationship between mothers and daughters has been the subject of much research and study, in such fields as psychoanalysis, sociology, and women's studies. But rarely has the history and evolution of this relationship been examined.In The Anchor of My Life, Linda W. Rosenzweig draws on a wide range of primary sourcesletters, diaries, autobiographies, prescriptive advice or selfhelp literature, and fictionto reveal the historical nuances of this pivotal relationship. Rosenzweig's distinctive approach focuses on the interaction between mothers and daughters of the American middle class at the turn of the century, revealing that mothers and daughters managed to sustain close, nurturing relationships in an era marked by a major female generation gap in terms of aspirations and opportunities. Illustrated with photographs and portraits of the time, The Anchor of My Life provocatively challenges the facile, late twentiethcentury assumption that the motherdaughter relationship is necessarily defined by hostility, guilt, and antagonism.
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