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Lessons from Shakespeare’s tiger mothers: Parental and political authority in Coriolanus and Merchant of Venice
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Introduction: Yale Law Professor Amy Chua's memoire Battle Hmn of the TigerMotherl created a media sensation. 2 The book struck a powerful chord as hundreds clamoured to register either horror or approval of Chua's confessing to and advocating for a model of mothering that mixes in equal measure asceticism, relentless demands for public achievement, and love (albeit conditional). Many saw Chua's tract as little more than a self-serving apology for child abuse. Others viewed her sometimes astonishingly honest expose as a refreshing antidote to the cult of self-esteem that predominates the theory and practice of childrearing at the beginning of the twenty-first century.3
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- 2014-01-01
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- © 2014 Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly. This version of this article is open access and can be downloaded and shared. The original author(s) and source must be cited.