Old World Daughter, New World Mother: An Education in Love and Freedom Old World Daughter, New World Mother: An Education in Love and Freedom

Old World Daughter, New World Mother: An Education in Love and Freedom

    • $13.99
    • $13.99

Publisher Description

A warm, smart, and witty personal investigation of ethnicity and womanhood.

In the second-generation immigrant home where Maria Laurino grew up, “independent” was a dirty word and “sacrifice” was the ideal and reality of motherhood. But out in the world, Mary Tyler Moore was throwing her hat in the air, personifying the excitement and opportunities of the freedom loving American career woman. How, then, to reconcile one’s inner Livia Soprano—the archetypal ethnic mother—with a feminist icon?Combining lived experience with research and reporting on our contemporary work-family dilemmas, Laurino brews an unusual and affirming blend of contemporary and traditional values. No other book has attempted to discuss feminism through the prism of ethnic identity, or to merge the personal and the analytical with such a passionate and intelligent literary voice. Prizing both individual freedom and an Old World in which the dependent young and old are cherished, Laurino makes clear how much the New World offers and how much it has yet to learn.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2009
April 13
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
224
Pages
PUBLISHER
W. W. Norton & Company
SELLER
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
SIZE
605.5
KB
Mother of Invention: How Our Mothers Influenced Us as Feminist Acadamics and Activists Mother of Invention: How Our Mothers Influenced Us as Feminist Acadamics and Activists
2013
True Confessions: Feminist Professors Tell Stories Out of School True Confessions: Feminist Professors Tell Stories Out of School
2011
Women in European Culture and Society Women in European Culture and Society
2017
The Soul of a Woman The Soul of a Woman
2021
Between Generations Between Generations
2020
Secret Paths: Women in the New Midlife Secret Paths: Women in the New Midlife
1997
The Price of Children The Price of Children
2024
The Italian Americans: A History The Italian Americans: A History
2014
Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America
2001
Il prezzo degli innocenti Il prezzo degli innocenti
2023
And there were red geraniums everywhere And there were red geraniums everywhere
2024