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Dizzyingly flexible, deeply human, often funny, it blasts aside our preconceptions and urges us to see the world as it is. Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in Siri Hustvedt's most personal essay collection yet, a scintillating and profound exploration of motherhood, the maternal and misogyny. Ranging across artistic mothers such as Jane Austen and Louise Bourgeois, psychoanalysis, science, literature and...