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 Dahl's Matilda to observations about motherhood in the ancient world, and thoughts about the stigmatization of single mothers in the UK, Mothers delivers a groundbreaking report into something so...

Why has violence, and especially violence against women, become so much more prominent and visible across the world? To explore this question, Jacqueline Rose tracks the multiple forms of today's violence—historic and intimate, public and private—as they spread throughout our social fabric, offering a new account of violence in our time. In this provocative and incisive book, Rose casts her...

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...

What is so compelling about war? On what powers of fascination and repulsion did Margaret Thatcher draw? What part does unconscious fantasy play in the way our political identities are formed? Why has there been so much dispute over the work of Melanie Klein? Over the past decade, psychoanalysis has been a focus of continuing controversy for feminism, and at...