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Mad wife : a memoir / Kate Hamilton.
Van Pelt Library HV6626 .H2693 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hamilton, Kate (Author of Mad wife), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abused wives--Biography.
- Abused wives.
- Family violence.
- Hamilton, Kate (Author of Mad wife).
- Hamilton, Kate.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 221 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "In this electrifying literary memoir, Kate Hamilton deftly traces her complicated journey from loving wife to gaslit victim to furious feminist with an urgent goal: to expose how women are pressured to uphold the institutions of marriage and family, no matter the cost. In the tradition of Know My Name and The Argonauts, Hamilton braids her own story with cultural criticism to argue that we must face the misogyny lurking in the shadows of marriage in the 21st century. She examines the beliefs and conditioning that held her in an increasingly destructive marriage and unflinchingly documents what she did to keep her family together-therapy, unwanted sex with her husband, swinging, affairs, an abortion-without always knowing what she freely chose. And she considers the damage that was done, to herself and others, until she could acknowledge that to save herself and her sons, she had to destroy her marriage. Emotionally intense and timely, Mad Wife interrogates how marriage and the institutions that support it provide the perfect ecosystem for abuse of women and children, endangering their lives and denying them autonomy-all in the service of men's desires"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Tumult. Fellow creature
- Love story
- Betrayal
- Stay
- Voices
- Seeming liberation and pleasure. Boiling frog
- Freedom
- Control
- Family
- What we owe each other
- Divorce is not the worst thing. Inside/outside
- Hovel
- Cruel and inhumane
- Control redux
- Banshee
- Sex is not something you owe. Mad
- Disturbing
- Monstrous.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780807016404
- 0807016403
- OCLC:
- 1418888213
- Publisher Number:
- 90101218866
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