Grandmotherland: Exploring the Myths and Realities [Paperback]

How might we better understand our travels through Grandmotherland? In this lively exploration, an experienced child psychotherapist draws together a wide range of perspectives on the role and experience of grandmothers.

Judith Edwards looks back to the past and forward to the future, while being rooted in the reality of the modern grandmothers life. We meet good grannies, bad grannies, and all those in between, as well as women who decided to be agents of transmission in other ways than passing on their DNA. Our guide looks at how the behaviour of the grandmother is affected by personality, culture, tradition and norms and considers how psychoanalytic insights may help us understand this territory of life.

In this lively exploration, an experienced child psychotherapist draws together perspectives on the role and experience of grandmothers. In Grandmotherland, we meet good grannies, bad grannies, and all those in between, as well as women who decided to be agents of transmission in other ways than passing on their DNA.

Acknowledgements
About the author
Preface
Introduction: In which we begin the journey and see where we go

1. We begin the journey and see where we go
2. Pits and pitfalls: is the Grandmother a made-up creature?
3. Grandmothers around the world
4. The Good Granny
5. Finding your place
6. A Granny story: Little Red Riding Hood
7. The Bad Granny
8. Flo and Co: Grandmothers recalled over the years
9. Conclusion: In which we sum up what we may have learned along the way

Bibliography

Index

'I felt as if I was riding through a mystical "grandmotherland" with Edwards from the off. Her book is couched in 35 years of experience working with families from divel£Ò