This book is about lives lived out on the borderlands, lives for which the central interpretative devices of the culture don't quite work. I much appreciated it. Download file to see previous pages The landscape for a good woman is not a conscientiously developed book of conflicting theories but somehow emerged as a challenge to many existing notions. I know this and you don't. Okay, in love with this. Nobody really, truly fits our easy narratives, but we have to make them fit, because we need history to make sense, individual idiosyncrasies be da. Book Details Author: Carolyn Steedman Publisher: Virago Press Ltd Edition: 1998 . There's a problem loading this menu right now. . I much appreciated it. Page Details. I am impressed, although a bit taken aback, by the ways in which Steedman confronts what she sees as major pitfalls in how accounts of working-women and mothers are simplified during the 1950’s, a time of significant po. 'Landscape for a Good Woman' marks a turning point in how history is written. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14, Children's Studies Social Science (Books), © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Steedman's mother was a chronically dissatisfied working-class woman angry about her life of material deprivation. Intricate and inspiring, this unusual book uses autobiographical elements to depict a mother and her daughter and two working-class childhoods (Burnley in the 1920s, South London in the 1950s) and to find a place for their stories in history and politics, in psychoanalysis and feminism. The author has crafted her book well and it was appreciated by the wide readership. This is an interesting work about class, psychoanalyses and how young girls' working class childhoods are influenced by their understanding of their position in society. This is often triggered by the realisation that the father has no influence outside the house. Partly autobiographical, taking a mother and her daughter; two working-class childhoods (Burnley in the 1920s, South London in the 1950s) and trying to find a place for their stories in history and politics, in psychoanalysis and feminism. 'Provocative and quite dazzling in its ambitions. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. I know this and you don't. ", Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2015. Started off brilliantly but then petered out.. Beyond categorization, Steedman's work is absolutely essential reading. Through an in-depth comparison of personal experience and prevailing political and social science theory on the psychology and attitudes of working-class people, Landscape for a Good Woman challenges an intellectual tradition that denies "its subjects a particular story, a personal history, except when that story illustrates a general thesis." Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. In the start of the book, Steedman acknowledges that she is not writing a history for everyone (she even denies that her book is a work of history). There's a reason it's still being published. So much social history and psychology, critiqued, unwound and re-formed. It has some fascinating things to say about how the stories that we tell to make history make sense can fail to encompass real people and their contradictions. Something went wrong. The psychoanalyitcal aspect throwing light on how the former's identity is firstly aligned to, and later contrasted to, the perceptions and expectations of the latter. Instead, through what she says is an act of 'particularizing', Steedman has demonstrated the importance of acknowledging the individual histories of 'lower class' or 'working class' people and families that are often over looked due to an array of social, economic, political, and psychological confines that dominate discourse in each of these areas. Refresh and try again. Beyond categorization, Steedman's work is absolutely essential reading. October 1st 1987 JL Egan, you were right. I think that it does speak to women. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. I think that it does speak to women. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. For a woman of my age - roughly that of the author - it provides insight to some world changing events. Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story by Carolyn Kay Steedman (1987). Narratives that mediate between the past, present, and future. It has a childhood at its centre - my childhood, a personal past - and it is about the disruption of that fifties childhood by the one my mother had lived out before me, and the stories she told about it.'. 'Landscape for a Good Woman' marks a turning point in how history is written. Welcome back. Beautifully written, intellectually compelling'.' Unique and undefinable, I loved this more than I can say -- probably one of the things more full of personal meaning to me as well as of theoretical import that I have read in a while. Please try again. There are lives, real lives, and there are the theories that explain them. Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2004. Steedman offers one of the most nuanced readings of marxism's link with psychoanalysis into an incredibly personal memoir. This was a very stimulating book that anyone who wants to think critically about issues surrounding class, femininity, sexuality motherhood and race. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. In particular, she brilliantly highlights the way in which class is effaced within the academy: "I read a woman's book, meet such a woman at a party (a woman now, like me) and think quite deliberately as we talk: we are divided: a hundred years ago I'd have been cleaning your shoes. I enjoyed the autobiographical stuff the most. In this history/biography, Steedman qualifies the use of the Freudian psychoanalytic case study to look at her working-class South London childhood. Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2007, As I was comprising a reading list for my graduate students, I was suddenly reminded of Steedman's slim historical-novella-theory book that towers over so many other creative and academic achievements. This is an insightful, well written book which embraces, history, politics and the personal, it's honesty reveals the complications of the human situation. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, + $9.93 Shipping & Import Fees Deposit to Hungary. Start by marking “Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives” as Want to Read: Error rating book. . There are lives, real lives, and there are the theories that explain them. If you haven't heard of record-smashing singer and songwriter Mariah Carey, is there any hope for you? After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. 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