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Mad Wife
Kate Hamilton
其他書名
A Memoir
出版
Beacon Press
, 2024-10-15
主題
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Family & Relationships / Abuse / Domestic Partner Abuse
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
ISBN
0807016411
9780807016411
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cUvuEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Submitting to unwanted sex destroyed Kate’s love for her husband
But she considered killing herself before she could imagine leaving
In this electrifying literary memoir, Kate Hamilton deftly traces her complicated journey from loving wife to gaslit victim to furious feminist with an urgent goal: to expose how women are pressured to uphold the institutions of marriage and family, no matter the cost.
In the tradition of
Know My Name
and
The Argonauts
, Hamilton braids her own story with cultural criticism to argue that we must face the misogyny lurking in the shadows of marriage in the 21st century. She examines the beliefs and conditioning that held her in an increasingly destructive marriage and unflinchingly documents what she did to keep her family together—therapy, unwanted sex with her husband, swinging, affairs, an abortion—without always knowing what she freely chose. And she considers the damage that was done, to herself and others, until she could acknowledge that to save herself and her sons, she had to destroy her marriage.
Emotionally intense and timely,
Mad Wife
interrogates how marriage and the institutions that support it provide the perfect ecosystem for abuse of women and children, endangering their lives and denying them autonomy—all in the service of men’s desires.