Behavior: Remembering Mama Too Much

Out of the feminist closet comes a touchy, complex relationship

For Poet-Essayist Adrienne Rich, it is "the great unwritten story." Author Nancy Friday calls it "the last taboo," and Psychology Writer Lucy Freeman sees it as the feminist movement's "last liberation." The subject of these slightly breathless descriptions: the tangled, ambivalent and often hostile relationship between mothers and daughters.

Until recently, this touchy and complex relationship seemed almost an embarrassment to the women's movement. If it was discussed at all, it was done privately. Says Village Voice Women's Movement Observer Karen Durbin: "It's...

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