In this compelling memoir by a writer, mother, and feminist, Jane Lazarre confronts the myth of the "good mother" with her fiercely honest and intimate portrait of early motherhood as a time of profound ambivalence and upheaval, filled with desperation as well as joy, the struggle to reclaim a sense of self, and sheer physical exhaustion. Originally published in 1976, The Mother Knot is a feminist classic, as relevant today as it was twenty years ago.
- Introduction - Maureen T. Reddy
- Preface to the Duke Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Part One: Birth
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Part Two: Mothers and Fathers
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Part Three: Children
- Part Four: The Dark Lady
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