‘A compound fenced off from the rest of the world’: Motherhood as the Stripping of One’s Self in Rachel Cusk’s A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother.
Society and the media would have us believe that giving birth to a child and the first months of motherhood are the happiest moments in a woman’s life. In a controversial memoir about the birth of her first child, entitled A Life’s Work, Rachel Cusk shattered the myth of the blissful mother and the...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2017-10-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/3802 |