Crafting with Ursula : Julie Phillips on the Writing Mother
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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Bringing the Domestic or the Hearth Out
The poet alicia ker puts it neatly, that women should have babies rather than books. The artist with the least access to social or aesthetic solidarity or approbation has been the artist's housewife. A person who undertakes responsibility both to her art and to her dependent children can be simply practically destroyingly impossible. As a recognition immense practical difficulty, if it were practical, solutions would be proposed, beginning with child care. Instead, the issue is stated even now as a moral one, a matter of ought and ought not. I imagine the netherlands having a very different relationship to motherhood than the united states.
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