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Free Download Mothers and Sons: A Novel by Adam Haslett
English | January 7, 2025 | ISBN: 0316574716 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 4.2 MB
A mother and son, estranged for years, must grapple with the shared secret that drove their lives apart in this enthralling story about family, forgiveness, and how a fleeting act of violence can change a life forever, by "one of the country’s most talented writers" (Wall Street Journal)

Free Download Leah Williams Veazey, "Migrant Mothers in the Digital Age: Emotion and Belonging in Migrant Maternal Online Communities "
English | ISBN: 0367897431 | 2021 | 140 pages | EPUB, PDF | 746 KB + 5 MB
This book explores the experiences of migrant mothers through the lens of the online communities they have created and participate in. Examining the ways in which migrant mothers build relationships with each other through these online communities and find ways to make a place for themselves and their families in a new country, it highlights the often overlooked labour that goes into sustaining these groups and facilitating these new relationships and spaces of trust. Through the concept of ‘digital community mothering,’ the author draws links to Black feminist scholarship that has shed light on the kinds of mothering that exist beyond the mother-child dyad. Providing new insights into the experiences of women who mother ‘away from home’ in this contemporary digital age, this volume explores the concepts of imagined maternal communities, personal maternal narratives, and migrant maternal imaginaries, highlighting the ways in which migrant mothers imagine themselves within local, national, and diasporic maternal communities. As such, it will appeal to scholars and students with interests in migration and diaspora studies, contemporary motherhood and the sociology of the family, and modern forms of online sociality.

Free Download Akiko Takenaka, "Mothers Against War: Gender, Motherhood, and Peace Activism in Cold War Japan"
English | ISBN: 0824898532 | 2025 | 224 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Mothers Against War examines the shifting relationships among motherhood, peace activism, and women’s rights in the decades following Japan’s defeat in 1945. With a focus on the concept of bosei, generally understood to be the "motherly" qualities that are supposedly inherent to women, the book illuminates how popular perceptions of the mother, the child, and the mother-child relationship gradually evolved to create the image that mothers, more than anyone else, protect children from war. This image did not result simply from a mothers’ desire to keep their children safe, nor was it the outcome of the Japanese experience of the Asia-Pacific War in which many mothers became widowed or lost their children. Through the examination of five instances of peace activism that took place between 1945 and 1980, Mothers Against War

Free Download Eszter Salgó, "Psychoanalytic Reflections on Politics: Fatherlands in mothers’ hands"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0415627370 | EPUB | pages: 196 | 0.8 mb
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Politics: Fatherlands in mothers’ hands is a playful exploration of how people’s desires, fantasies, and emotions shape political events and social phenomena. It highlights the mythical sources of today’s political projects, the power of political imagination, and the function of symbolism in political thought. Eszter Salgó argues that the driving force for the formation of political communities is fantasy – ‘illusions’ in a Winnicottian sense, ‘phantasies’ in a Lacanian sense, ‘phantoms’ as described by Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok, and ‘dreams’ as interpreted by Sándor Ferenczi. She introduces the metaphor of the ‘fantastic family’ as a symbolic representation of political communities, both to reflect on people’s deeply felt desire to find in public life the resolution, love, and wholeness of early childhood, and to unveil the political elite’s readiness to don the mask of the ‘ideal parent’.

Free Download Mothers and Sons: A Memoir by Theodor Kallifatides, translated by Marlaine Delargy
English | December 10, 2024 | ISBN: 1635423007 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 2 MB
An aging writer’s love letter to his elderly mother, this achingly beautiful work of autofiction traces their family’s history in Greece and in exile.

Free Download Haywood Smith, "The Twelve Sacred Traditions of Magnificent Mothers-In-Law"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0982175604 | EPUB | pages: 95 | 1.3 mb
A very Southern mother-in-law’s humorous advice to mothers-in-law everywhere. From the multiple New York Times bestselling author of The Red Hat Club.

Free Download Go Ask Your Mothers: One Simple Step for Managers to Support Working Moms for Team Success by Sarah Wells
English | August 13th, 2024 | ISBN: 1637745575 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 1.04 MB
From a CEO of a multimillion-dollar company that empowers working moms, this guide gives managers an inside look at what mothers really want from their leaders.

Free Download Deborah Tannen, "You’re Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation"
English | 2006 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 081297266X, 1400062586 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
Deborah Tannen’s #1 New York Timesbestseller You Just Don’t Understand revolutionized communication between women and men. Now, in her most provocative and engaging book to date, she takes on what is potentially the most fraught and passionate connection of women’s lives: the mother-daughter relationship.

Free Download Peg Streep, "Mean Mothers: Overcoming the Legacy of Hurt"
English | 2009 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 0061651362 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
Drawn from research and the real-life experiences of adult daughters, Mean Mothers illuminates one of the last cultural taboos: what happens when a woman does not or cannot love her own daughter. Peg Streep,co-author of the highly acclaimed Girl in the Mirror, has subtitled this important, eye-opening exploration of the darker side of maternal behavior, "Overcoming the Legacy of Hurt." There are no psychopathicchild abusers in Mean Mothers. Instead, this essential volume focuses on the more subtle forms of psychological damage inflicted by mothers on their unappreciated daughters-and offers help and support to those women who were forced to suffer a parent’s cruelty and neglect.

Free Download The Book of Mothers: How Literature Can Help Us Reinvent Modern Motherhood (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CT3WY26D | 2024 | 8 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 238 MB
Author: Carrie Mullins
Narrator: Sarab Kamoo
Sweet, supportive, dependable, selfless. Long before she had children of her own, journalist Carrie Mullins knew how mothers should behave. But how? Where did these expectations come from-and, more importantly, are they serving the mothers whose lives they shape? Carrie’s suspicion, later crystallized while raising two small children, was that our culture’s idealization of motherhood was not only painfully limiting but harmful, leaving women to cope with impossible standards-standards rarely created by mothers themselves. To discover how we might talk about motherhood in a more realistic, nuanced, and inclusive way, Carrie turned to literature with memorable maternal figures for answers.