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020    9780393088595|q(hardcover) :|c$27.95 
020    0393088596|q(hardcover) 
035    (OCoLC)1310706307 
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092    810.9|bPHI 
100 1  Phillips, Julie,|eauthor. 
245 14 The baby on the fire escape :|bcreativity, motherhood, and
       the mind-baby problem /|cJulie Phillips. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bW.W. Norton & Company,|c[2022] 
300    310 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-310). 
505 0  The Mind-Baby Problem -- "The Presiding Genius of Her Own 
       Body" -- Outlaw Mothering: Alice Neel (1900-1984) -- All 
       the Time: Art Monsters and Maintenance Work -- The 
       Discomfort Zone: Sex and Love -- Incompatible Pleasures: 
       Doris Lessing (1919-2013) -- The Discomfort Zone: The 
       Unavailable Muse -- "Poems Are Housework": Books versus 
       Babies -- All Happy Families: Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-
       2018) -- The Discomfort Zone: Ghosts -- The Discomfort 
       Zone: Late Success -- Mother, Poet, Warrior: Audre Lorde 
       (1934-1992) -- The Discomfort Zone: Not Being All There --
       Freedom: Alice Walker (1944-) -- The Baby on the Writing 
       Desk; or, Two Things at Once -- Her Own Version: Angela 
       Carter (1940-1992) -- Time and the Story. 
520    "An insightful and provocative exploration of the 
       relationship between motherhood and art through the lives 
       of women artists and writers. What does it mean to create,
       not in "a room of one's own," but in a domestic space? Do 
       children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on 
       the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Julie Phillips 
       traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and 
       creativity converge. With fierce empathy and vivid prose, 
       Phillips evokes the intimate struggles of brilliant 
       artists and writers, including Doris Lessing, who had to 
       choose between her motherhood and herself; Ursula K. Le 
       Guin, who found productive stability in family life; Audre
       Lorde, whose queer, polyamorous union allowed her to raise
       children on her own terms; and Alice Neel, who once, to 
       finish a painting, was said to have left her baby on the 
       fire escape of her New York apartment. A meditation on 
       maternal identity and artistic greatness, The Baby on the 
       Fire Escape illuminates some of the most pressing 
       conflicts in contemporary women's lives"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
650  0 Motherhood and the arts. 
650  0 Women artists|xFamily relationships. 
650  0 Women authors|xFamily relationships. 
650  0 Motherhood in art. 
650  0 Motherhood in literature. 
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