The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem Phillips Julie
The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem Phillips Julie What does a great artist who is also a mother look like? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning…
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The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem Phillips Julie
What does a great artist who is also a mother look like? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and creativity converge.With fierce empathy, Phillips evokes the intimate and varied struggles of brilliant artists and writers of the twentieth century. Ursula K. What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own," but in a domestic space?
Susan Sontag became a mother at nineteen, Angela Carter at forty-three. Le Guin found productive stability in family life, and Audre Lorde's queer, polyamorous union allowed her to raise children on her own terms. These mothers had one child, or five, or seven.
They worked in a studio, in the kitchen, in the car, on the bed, at a desk, with a baby carrier beside them. They faced judgement for pursuing their creative work--Doris Lessing was said to
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