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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 00 |tThe Mind-Baby Problem --|t"The Presiding Genius of Her 
       Own Body" --|tOutlaw Mothering: Alice Neel (1900-1984) --
       |tAll the Time: Art Monsters and Maintenance Work --|tThe 
       Discomfort Zone: Sex and Love --|tIncompatible Pleasures: 
       Doris Lessing (1919-2013) --|tThe Discomfort Zone: The 
       Unavailable Muse --|t"Poems Are Housework": Books versus 
       Babies --|tAll Happy Families: Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-
       2018) --|tThe Discomfort Zone: Ghosts --|tThe Discomfort 
       Zone: Late Success --|tMother, Poet, Warrior: Audre Lorde 
       (1934-1992) --|tThe Discomfort Zone: Not Being All There -
       -|tFreedom: Alice Walker (1944-) --|tThe Baby on the 
       Writing Desk;|tor, Two Things at Once --|tHer Own Version:
       Angela Carter (1940-1992) --|tTime 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.