tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post3126444611949873711..comments2024-03-22T21:02:55.051+13:00Comments on Bat, Bean, Beam: The Absent MotherGiovanni Tisohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-5913398298515406042012-04-28T18:53:30.567+12:002012-04-28T18:53:30.567+12:00"A lot of practices of the middle class, and ..."A lot of practices of the middle class, and the lower classes that aspire to be middle, can only be understood as attempts to model the markers of higher classes. The fashion for lawns follows the landed classes in the UK, who owned large estates and had the wealth to maintain staff and create 'order'."<br /><br />I am an assiduous collector of signs of this phenomenon in the Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-80224065069199937712012-04-28T18:39:37.747+12:002012-04-28T18:39:37.747+12:00Sorry for not replying to comments sooner - I was ...Sorry for not replying to comments sooner - I was en route to italy when I posted this and then as usual in these circumstances the trip took over. Still, for what it's worth. <br /><br />"IMO, 2nd wave feminism ideals were appropriated and twisted around to be used against women who wanted independence and choices. There are no choices now - family is something you can only have if you Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-17336218820435797552012-04-19T23:26:04.984+12:002012-04-19T23:26:04.984+12:00Nature abhors a vacuum (and an empty comments sect...Nature abhors a vacuum (and an empty comments section).<br /><br />There's something universal about this story. The absent mother, the parentless home. I'm not sure it can be read straightforwardly in the way you imply though. When I was young and reading the book, the situation implied normality - the mother had other engagements, and the children were left to their own devices. Their George Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-15270720939455888622012-04-18T10:29:17.331+12:002012-04-18T10:29:17.331+12:00If i compare my childhood experience with mum alwa...If i compare my childhood experience with mum always at home (no dad) to contemporary experiences, the first thing that stands out is that my generation of kids were so much more physical and absent from the house, but just down the road somewhere playing. Transgression largely happened outside the home and Mum was security, stability, always there on cook duty, to soothe the illnesses etc. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com