The woman who gave birth to her mother
Subtitle: seven stages of change in women's lives
By: Kim Chernin.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Women -- Psychology.; Women -- Identity.; Mothers and daughters.; Archetype (Psychology)
Description: Chernin explores the stages of change through which women travel, from idealization of the past and revising it: blaming the mother and forgiving her, letting go of her and, ultimately, giving birth to a new self.

Chernin's tales of women's transformations are arresting and full of depth: one woman, adopted as a child, embarks on a journey to locate her birth mother; another finds the source of a voice that haunts her - the voice of her daughter, given up at birth; a third unlocks her own creative process and paints her way out of a painful symbiosis. Framing these stories is the narrative of Chernin's relationship with her own daughter and the insights won from three generations of women in her family.