Motherless Daughters The Legacy Of Loss
by Edelman, HopeFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1994-05-19
Publisher(s): Da Capo Lifelong Books
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Summary
A classic bestseller, now newly expanded and updated-the book that first acknowledged "mother loss," a woman's most profoundly life-altering passage
Author Biography
Hope Edelman is a writer whose work has appeared nationally. She graduated from the University of Iowa Writing Program and lives in New York City. Her mother died when she was seventeen.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| The Seasons of Grieving: Mourning Takes Time | p. 3 |
| Times of Change: Developmental Stages of a Daughter's Life | p. 26 |
| Cause and Effect: No Way Is the Best Way | p. 62 |
| Later Loss: Learning How to Let Go | p. 90 |
| Daddy's Little Girl: The Father-Daughter Dyad | p. 107 |
| Sister and Brother, Sister and Sister: Sibling Connections (and Disconnections) | p. 134 |
| Looking for Love: Intimate Relationships | p. 155 |
| When a Woman Needs a Woman: Gender Matters | p. 175 |
| Who She Was, Who I Am: Developing an Independent Identity | p. 197 |
| Mortal Lessons: Life, Death, Sickness, Health | p. 215 |
| The Daughter Becomes a Mother: Extending the Line | p. 235 |
| The Female Phoenix: Creativity, Achievement, and Success | p. 259 |
| Epilogue | p. 278 |
| Appendix | p. 285 |
| Bibliography | p. 291 |
| Notes | p. 293 |
| Index | p. 315 |
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