The anchor of my life
middle-class American mothers and daughters, 1880-1920
by Linda W. Rosenzweig
The 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 sources - letters, diaries, autobiographies, prescriptive advice or "self-help" literature, and fiction - to 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 twentieth-century assumption that the mother-daughter relationship is necessarily defined by hostility, guilt, and antagonism.
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The Anchor of My Life: Middle-Class American Mothers and Daughters, 1880-1920 (The History of Emotions Series)
October 1, 1994, New York University Press
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in English
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The anchor of my life: middle-class American mothers and daughters, 1880-1920
1993, New York University Press
in English
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Anchor of My Life: Middle-Class American Mothers and Daughters, 1880-1920
1993, New York University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-287) and index.
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