National Theatre
Neapolitan Novels of Elena Ferrante (Quartet); My Brilliant Friend; The Story of the Lost Child; seen as in-depth literary rendering of friendship between women; first pregnancy featured in; and titles’ ambiguity; as act of mothering; one of grimmest moments in; see also Ferrante, Elena
Netmums
New Orleans, and hurricanes
New Society
New York Times
Niobe
Norton, Caroline
‘Notes on Relations with Coloured Troops’ (Dowler)
‘Notes on the Perfect’ (McRobbie)
Nursing of Children, The (Guillimeau)
Obama, Barack
Oedipus
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (Rich)
Ofili, Chris
Olmi, Véronique
On the Natural History of Destruction (Sebald)
Onfray, Michel
Orbach, Susie
Oresteia trilogy (Aeschylus); Icke’s adaptation of; Klein’s essay on
Parker, Rozsika
Pericles
Petersen, Lauren Hackworth
Pietà
Plath, Aurelia
Plath, Sylvia; and ‘Ariel’; and Three Women – A Poem for Three Voices; and ‘Morning Song’; and Ariel; and Bee Sequence; and Hughes; and ‘Wintering’
Plaza de Mayo
Plutarch
Poland, and maternity pay
postnatal depression
poverty, more children falling into
pregnancy: and ‘health tourism’; and negative treatment at work; and health and safety at work; and claiming benefits; and welfare of unborn child; de Beauvoir’s view of; and dark side; inverse
‘primary maternal preoccupation’
Prince of Wales Fund
prison population, mothers among
Procter & Gamble
Prometheus Unbound (Shelley)
psychoanalysis; and de Beauvoir; and Ferrante
refugees: UK government halts agreement on; see also migration crisis
‘republican motherhood’
Reynolds, Margaret
Rich, Adrienne
Riley, Denise
Roe v. Wade
Rose, Gillian
St George’s Hospital, Tooting
Salzman-Mitchell, Patricia
Samir (in Calais camp)
Sandberg, Sheryl
Schengen Agreement
Sears, Martha
Sears, William
Sebald, W. G.
Second Sex, The (de Beauvoir)
Shakespeare, William; Roman plays of
Shaw, Fiona
Shaw, Stephanie
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Shklar, Judith
single mothers: and benefits; rising numbers of; and ‘scrounger’ epithet; as one of poorest groups in Britain; and US census; and children forcibly removed; wartime, and ‘Relations with Coloured Troops’
slaves/slavery
Slovo, Gillian
social work
Sophocles
South Africa: and postnatal depression; see also apartheid
Spain, and maternity pay
Stepford wives
Story of the Lost Child, The (Ferrante); see also Neapolitan Novels of Elena Ferrante
Stryker, Susan
Studies in the Maternal
Sudan, war in
Sun; and ‘health tourism’
Suppliant Women, The (Euripides)
Taizé reception centre
Terra Mater
terrorist attacks: Bataclan; Brussels; Charlie Hebdo
Testament of Mary, The (Tóibín)
Thane, Pat
They Came Like Swallows (Maxwell)
‘Thoughts About My Daughter Before Sleep’ (Hochman)
Three Guineas (Woolf)
Three Women – A Poem for Three Voices (Plath)
Thucydides
Tóibín, Colm
Tokyo–Yokohama earthquake
Tolstoy, Leo
Torn in Two (Parker)
Troubling Love (Ferrante)
Trump, Donald: and abortion; and lives of black people
Uganda, and depiction of mothers
United Kingdom: and migration crisis; and ‘health tourism’, see ‘health tourism’
United States: census in, on single mothers; and undocumented migrants taking care of children
Virgil
Virgin Mary; and Testament of Mary, The; and Godard film
War in the Nursery (Riley)
Waugh, Daisy
Waves, The (Woolf)
Welldon, Estella
Wharton, Edith; de Beauvoir compared to; see also de Beauvoir, Simone
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Winterson)
Williams, Lia
Wilmers, Mary-Kay
Winnicott, D. W.
‘Wintering’ (Plath)
Winterson, Jeannette
Wolf, Christa
Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, The
Woolf, Virginia
World War One, and single motherhood
World War Two: and single motherhood; and Allied bombing; maternal social policy after; and extermination camp
Years, The (Woolf)
Zinnemann, Fred
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Grateful acknowledgement is made for permission to reprint the following material:
Here: Quotations from The Return (2016) by Hisham Matar and from Autumn (2016) by Ali Smith are included with the kind permission of the authors.
Here: Quotations from song lyrics by Hole:
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‘Softer, Softest’ written by Eric Erlandson and Courtney Love
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‘I Think That I Would Die’ written by Eric Erlandson and Courtney Love
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Here: Quotations from ‘Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices’ by Sylvia Plath, taken from Winter Trees (Faber & Faber Ltd, 2017). Copyright © The Estate of Sylvia Plath, 1971.
All quotations from the works of Elena Ferrante are included with the kind permission of Edizioni E/O/Europa Editions.
ALSO BY JACQUELINE ROSE
Women in Dark Times
The Haunting of Sylvia Plath
The Last Resistance
Proust Among the Nations: From Dreyfus to the Middle East
The Question of Zion
Sexuality in the Field of Vision
On Not Being Able to Sleep: Psychoanalysis and the Modern World
Albertine
States of Fantasy
Why War? Psychoanalysis, Politics, and the Return to Melanie Klein
Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the École Freudienne
The Case of Peter Pan; or, The Impossibility of Children’s Fiction
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jacqueline Rose is the author of books about feminism, psychoanalysis, literature and culture, and the Middle East, including Women in Dark Times, The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, and The Question of Zion. She is a codirector of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, a cofounder of Independent Jewish Voices, and a fellow of the British Academy. Rose is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books and The Guardian, among many other publications. You can sign up for email updates here.
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; CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraphs
Opening
1 SOCIAL PUNISHMENT
Now
Then
2 PSYCHIC BLINDNESS
Loving
Hating
3 THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Elena Ferrante
Inside Out
Coda
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
Permissions Acknowledgements
Also by Jacqueline Rose
A Note About the Author
Copyright
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Originally published in 2018 by Faber & Faber Ltd., Great Britain
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First American edition, 2018
Owing to limitations of space, all acknowledgments for permission to reprint previously published material appear here.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Rose, Jacqueline, author.
Title: Mothers: an essay on love and cruelty / Jacqueline Rose.
Description: First American Edition.|New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2018]|Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017055261|ISBN 9780374213794 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Mothers—Psychology.
Classification: LCC HQ759 .R6367 2018|DDC 155.6/463—dc23
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