Download or read book Madre: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun written by Elizabeth Bakewell and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How could madre mean whore as much as virgin? What happens to the ninety-nine madres when one father enters the room and they become a group of padres? And why can't a bien educada woman in Mexico say the word madre without raising eyebrows? --