The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem

Name: The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
Brand: WW Norton & Co
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By Julie Phillips

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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:: 310
Release Date:: 2022-04-26
Publication Date:: 2022-04-26
Publisher:: WW Norton & Co
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0393088596
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 544 g
Height:: 23.8 cm
Width:: 16 cm
Thickness:: 2.7 cm

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