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The Baby on the Fire Escape

By Julie Phillips

The Baby on the Fire Escape Social Sciences

The Baby on the Fire Escape

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What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own" but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and creativity converge. With fierce empathy and vivid prose, Phillips evokes the intimate struggles of brilliant artists and writers, including Doris Lessing, who had to choose between her motherhood and herself; Ursula K. Le Guin, who found productive stability in family life; Audre Lorde, whose queer, polyamorous union allowed her to raise children on her own terms and Alice Neel, who once, to finish a painting, was said to have left her baby on the fire escape of her New York apartment. A meditation on maternal identity and artistic greatness, The Baby on the Fire Escape illuminates some of the most pressing conflicts in contemporary women's lives.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
2022-04-26
Publication Date:
2022-04-26
Publisher:
Blue Guides Limited of London
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0393088596
ISBN13:
9780393088595
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
512 g
Height:
159 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
33 cm
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