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This is an engaging and well-written book about a topic that needs to be discussed; that alongside loving feelings are hating ones which together with joy, sadness, anxiety, etc form the mosaic of the real experience of the mother.

This accessible, scholarly book skilfully blends historic and contemporary theories from motherhood studies, and weaves in examples from film to illustrate their resonance in modern times.

Margo Lowy takes on the often taboo but essential aspect of mothering in Maternal Experience. Lowy convincingly demonstrates the normality of ambivalent feelings and how these might become a transformative part of maternal love.