A mother’s escalating control over her daughter coincided with increasing physical abuse

Evidence

This scrutiny went on for a long time, and her relationship with her mother kept deteriorating. She had to come home directly after school. Phone calls were monitored, homework was mandated, and television was limited to wholesome material like The Cosby Show, Family Matters, and Disney movies. Meanwhile, the slapping and yelling and hitting became more frequent. For Lina, school was freedom. Home felt like prison. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 601

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the theme of immigrant parental control vs. children’s Americanization that recurs across the whole book and in works like The Namesake. — connects to: A wife’s childhood-formed core resists a husband’s attempts to reshape her — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1302; Mothers can treat their own daughters as rivals to be defeated — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1728