alice walker's):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1021293/How-mothers-fanatical-feminist-views-tore-apart-daughter-The-Color-Purple-author.html
in fairness, a rebuttal (isn't slate pretty liberal?):
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/
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Interesting reads.
I've been browsing your blog and it's pretty awesome.
-Alicia
Wow. The article about Rebecca almost made me want to cry. Very sad. The rebuttal was odd though.
Rebecca allowed her mother to solely shape her image of motherhood, and for that matter womanhood and self?
I think it's unreasonable to assume that one's mom doesn't have a major impact on shaping what we want to be, especially if a girl grows up under somebody so dogmatic. It takes a long time to undo that kind of learning.
very interesting.
yeah--of course the rebuttal was from a feminist perspective, and some kinds of feminism don't like to admit dependence on anything.
A lot of us spend a lot of time unlearning some-to-all of the things we learned from our parents. And I'm sure our kids will have to, as well--though hopefully there'll be less to unlearn and more to pass on. :)
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