{"product_id":"mother-tongues-barbara-e-johnson-9780674011878","title":"Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, and Sylvia Plath make up the odd trio on which this book is based. It is in the surprising and revealing links between them--links pertaining to troublesome mothers, elusive foreign languages, and professional disappointments--that Barbara Johnson maps the coordinates of her larger claims about the ideal of oneness in every area of life, and about the damage done by this ideal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe existence of sexual difference precludes an original or ultimate \"one\" who would represent all of mankind; the plurality of languages makes it impossible to think that one doesn't live in translation; and the plurality of the sexes means that every human being came from a woman's body, and some will reproduce this feat, while others won't. In her most personal and deeply considered book about difference, Johnson asks: Is the mother the guardian of a oneness we have never had? The relations that link mothers, bodies, words, and laws serve as the guiding puzzles as she searches for an answer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara E. Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674011872\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674011878\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.66h x 5.66w x 0.86d","brand":"Barbara E. Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46465467351295,"sku":"9780674011878","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8b5f7f03-dbcd-47fc-92c9-103e2cf128e6.jpg?v=1736346330","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mother-tongues-barbara-e-johnson-9780674011878","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}