num_pages: 304
description: Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in this new essay collection from Siri Hustvedt an exploration of the shifting borders that define human experience including boundaries we usually take for grantedbetween ourselves and others nature and nurture viewer and artworkwhich turn out to be far less stable than we imagine.Described as a 21st-century Virginia Woolf in the Literary Review (UK) Man Booker longlisted Hustvedt displays her expansive intellect and interdisciplinary knowledge in this collection that moves effortlessly between stories of her mother grandmother and daughter to artistic mothers Jane Austen Emily Bront and Lousie Bourgeois to the broader meanings of maternal in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority. Mothers Fathers and Others is a polymaths journey into urgent questions about familial love and hate human prejudice and cruelty and the transformative power of art. This moving fierce and often funny book is finally about the fact that being alive means being in states of constant dynamic exchange with what is around us and that the impulse to draw hard and fast conceptual borders where none exist carries serious theoretical and political dangers.
language: English
title: Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays
publisher: Simon & Schuster