TY - BOOK AU - Hustvedt,Siri AU - Hustvedt,Siri AU - Hustvedt,Siri AU - Hustvedt,Siri AU - Hustvedt,Siri AU - Hustvedt,Siri AU - Hustvedt,Siri AU - Hustvedt,Siri AU - Hustvedt,Siri AU - Hustvedt,Siri AU - Hustvedt,Siri TI - Mothers, fathers, and others: essays SN - 9781982176396 PY - 2021/// CY - New York PB - Simon & Schuster KW - Hustvedt, Siri KW - Motherhood KW - Essays KW - lcgft N1 - Tillie --; My mother's ocean and how it became mine --; Stones and ashes --; A walk with my mother --; States of mind --; Mentor ghosts --; Open borders --; Notes from New York --; Reading during the plague --; When I met you I saw myself as another --; The future of literature --; Translation stories --; The sinbad variations --; He dropped his pen --; The enigma of reading --; Living thing --; Visiting St. Francis --; Both-and --; What does a man want? --; Scapegoat N2 - In this essay collection in which feminist philosophy meets family memoir, the novelist and scholar moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to connect mothers to the broader meanings of maternity in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority ER -