Jacqueline Rose

From one of the most important contemporary thinkers we have, a compelling, forceful tract about women and motherhood that demands immediate attention. Moving commandingly between pop cultural references such as Roald Dahls Matilda to observations about motherhood in the ancient world, from and thoughts about the stigmatization of single mothers in the UK, Mothers delivers a groundbreaking report into something so prevalent we hardly notice. A short, provocative work that considers how motherhood the object of intense ambivalence, of idealization and hatred-is the ultimate scapegoat for everything that is wrong with the world.

A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic.To read Rose is to understand that there is no border between us and the world; it is an invitation to a radical kind of responsibility.NEW YORK TIMESIts really hard for me to overestimate how important [Roses] work has been for me . . . I dont feel like that about very many writers.MAGGIE NELSON, GRAND JOURNALAn immense achievement.JUDE KELLY CBETimeless.HELEN PANKHURST CBEWhy has violence - particularly against women - become exponentially more prominent and visible across the world? Tracking multiple forms of todays violence - ranging through trans rights and #MeToo; the suffragette movement and the sexual harassment faced by migrant women; and the sharp increase in domestic violence over the course of the pandemic - this blazing exploration is an agitation against injustice and a formidable call to action from a world-renowned feminist thinker.Rose explodes the myth that violence and misogyny only happens to other women.VAL McDERMIDThis book confirms Jacqueline Roses position as one of the worlds foremost public intellectuals.MARK GEVISSERA daring thinker, willing to make bold statements and take imaginative leaps.NEW STATESMANRoses work remains surprising and original . . . Her prose has the feel of spiraling in many directions; it is invigoratingly alive . . . necessary and as well as unique.NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKSFor anyone looking to educate themselves on this essential subject, start here and now.ESQUIRE

Women in Dark Times begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon; and film icon Marilyn Monroe. The story of these women, bound together by their struggles against iniquity, blazes a trail across some of the defining features of the twentieth century revolution, totalitarianism and the American dream and compels us to reckon with the unspeakable. Bringing to the surface the subterranean depths of history and the human mind that dominant political vocabularies cannot bear to face, pioneering critic and public intellectual Jacqueline Rose forges a new language for feminism. Extending her argument into the present, Rose turns her focus to honour killings and celebrates contemporary artists whose work grows out of an unflinching engagement with all that is darkest in the modern world. Women in Dark Times, reissued a decade after its original publication, offers a template for a scandalous feminism, one which confronts all that is most recalcitrant and unsettling in the struggle to create a better world.

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Madres: Un ensayo sobre la crueldad y el amor se ordena en torno a una idea bien definida: en la cultura occidental, la maternidad es ese espacio en el que enterramos la realidad de nuestros propios conflictos, los que nos identifican como plenamente humanos. Las madres son las responsables ultimas de nuestros fracasos personales, de todo lo que esta mal en nuestra politica y en nuestra sociedad y que, de alguna manera, ellas tienen la obligacion de enmendar; una tarea, a todas luces, tan injusta como irrealizable.A la historica reivindicacion feminista en lo tocante a la sobreexigencia de que son objeto las madres, la autora añade una nueva faceta al plantearse que estamos haciendo al trasladarles aquello que mas nos cuesta aceptar. Porque, al hacer que tengan el deber de sufrir todo tipo de crueldades, estamos cerrando los ojos ante las flagrantes desigualdades que nos rodean.Valiendose de articulos, obras literarias, documentos oficiales o ejemplos de la vida diaria, la obra de Jacqueline Rose se erige en definitiva como una incisiva y apremiante llamada a la accion: o reconocemos de una vez que es exactamente lo que estamos pidiendo que las madres hagan en y por el mundo, o seguiremos destrozando sin remedio el mundo y a las propias madres.

Madres: Un ensayo sobre la crueldad y el amor se ordena en torno a una idea bien definida: en la cultura occidental, la maternidad es ese espacio en el que enterramos la realidad de nuestros propios conflictos, los que nos identifican como plenamente humanos. Las madres son las responsables ultimas de nuestros fracasos personales, de todo lo que esta mal en nuestra politica y en nuestra sociedad y que, de alguna manera, ellas tienen la obligacion de enmendar; una tarea, a todas luces, tan injusta como irrealizable.A la historica reivindicacion feminista en lo tocante a la sobreexigencia de que son objeto las madres, la autora añade una nueva faceta al plantearse que estamos haciendo al trasladarles aquello que mas nos cuesta aceptar.Porque, al hacer que tengan el deber de sufrir todo tipo de crueldades, estamos cerrando los ojos ante las flagrantes desigualdades que nos rodean.Valiendose de articulos, obras literarias, documentos oficiales o ejemplos de la vida diaria, la obra de Jacqueline Rose se erige en definitiva como una incisiva y apremiante llamada a la accion: o reconocemos de una vez que es exactamente lo que estamos pidiendo que las madres hagan en y por el mundo, o seguiremos destrozando sin remedioel mundo y a las propias madres.