Motherless Daughters The Legacy Of Loss

by Edelman, Hope

• ISBN13: 9780201632880
• ISBN10: 0201632888
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-05-19
• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books

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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