Reviews for Mothers of All Children

The average rating for Mothers of All Children based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-03-13 00:00:00 Matthew Cromie An examination of the birth of the juvenile court system. Some really interesting stuff, especially regarding the ways in which fairly conservative (anti-suffrage) women worked in very public and very political ways to help children. For the women's history nerd.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-01-25 00:00:00 Todd Kindberg This five volume history of the victorian bourgeois follows a freudian schematic: the first volume dealt with love, the second with sex, and this volume with agression. This book was my favorite of the three I've read so far. Gay picks apart the Victorian penchant for cloaked agression with admirable scholastic fortitude. His discussion of Foucault's theory of prisons is a high light for this entire five volume set. His critique of what he calls the "social control" theorists is that they fail to take into account the ability of the powerful to delude themselves into thinking they are doing the right thing, even when they are most assuredly not. Why stop here? Only two more volumes to go...