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Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty Kathryn O’Shea-Evans 'A prose that has theA daring and provocative book length essay on why we both romanticize and vilify mothers A simple argument guides this book: motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge, or rather bury, the reality of our own conflicts. By making mothers the objects of both licensed idealization and cruelty, we blind ourselves to the worlds iniquities and shut down the portals of the heart. Mothers are the ultimate scapegoat for our personal and political