Author : Lorna Goodison
Publisher : New Beacon
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Women
ISBN : 0901241687
I Am Becoming My Mother
Lorna Goodison
I Am Becoming My Mother
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I Am Becoming My Mother
Lorna Goodison
Author : Lorna Goodison
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015019123226
I Am Becoming My Mother by Lorna Goodison Pdf
Not Becoming My Mother
Ruth Reichl
Author : Ruth Reichl
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1594202168
Not Becoming My Mother by Ruth Reichl Pdf
Bestselling author Reichl embarks on a clear-eyed, openhearted investigation of her mother's life, piecing together the journey of a woman she comes to realize she never really knew.
Becoming Mother
Sharon Tjaden-Glass
Author : Sharon Tjaden-Glass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0996332804
Becoming Mother by Sharon Tjaden-Glass Pdf
"Becoming Mother" tells the story of a woman becoming a mother. It is a reflective memoir that spans from pregnancy through the end of the first year postpartum. It follows the author as she resists, denies, copes with, and ultimately embraces her identity as a mother. This isn't a guide or a parenting book. Its goal isn't to convert you to one brand of motherhood or another. Instead, its goal is to show you what becoming a mother can be like. Without sarcasm. Without boasting or martyrdom. Just the plain, messy truth of what it's like for one to become two.
Without My Mother
Melissa Cistaro
Author : Melissa Cistaro
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443458726
Without My Mother by Melissa Cistaro Pdf
How Do You Forgive a Parent Who Has Failed You? One summer, Melissa Cistaro’s mother stepped into her baby-blue Dodge Dart and drove away, leaving behind Melissa and her brothers. Rarely seeing their mother as they were growing up, they blamed themselves for her leaving, turning to each other for support and seeking out often destructive ways to cope with living without their mom. Decades later, with children of her own, Melissa finds herself in Olympia, Washington, as her mother is dying. She has just days to find out what happened that summer and to confront the unthinkable fear that a “leaving gene” might be lying dormant inside of her. She knew she came from a long line of mothers who left their children. But when Melissa stumbles across a folder titled “Letters Never Sent” tucked away in her mother’s filing cabinet, she begins to feel the wreckage of her mother’s painful journey, before and after she abandoned her family. Alternating between Melissa’s tumultuous coming-of-age and her mother’s final days, Without My Mother is a haunting yet ultimately uplifting story of one woman’s quest to discover how our parents’ choices impact our own and how we can survive those choices to forge our own paths.
Regretting Motherhood
Orna Donath
Author : Orna Donath
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781623171384
Regretting Motherhood by Orna Donath Pdf
Women who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in life, yet we rarely talk about the possibility that the opposite might also be true—that women who have children might regret it. Drawing on years of research interviewing women from a variety of socioeconomic, educational, and professional backgrounds, sociologist Orna Donath treats regret as a feminist issue: as regret marks the road not taken, we need to consider whether alternative paths for women currently are blocked off. She asks that we pay attention to what is forbidden by rules governing motherhood, time, and emotion, including the cultural assumption that motherhood is a “natural” role for women—for the sake of all women, not just those who regret becoming mothers. If we are disturbed by the idea that a woman might regret becoming a mother, Donath says, our response should not be to silence and shame these women; rather, we need to ask honest and difficult questions about how society pushes women into motherhood and why those who reconsider it are still seen as a danger to the status quo. Groundbreaking, thoughtful, and provocative, this is an especially needed book in our current political climate, as women's reproductive rights continue to be at the forefront of national debates.
Surprised by Motherhood
Lisa-Jo Baker
Author : Lisa-Jo Baker
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781414391007
Surprised by Motherhood by Lisa-Jo Baker Pdf
A lawyer with a well-stamped passport and a passion for human rights, Lisa-Jo Baker never wanted to be a mom. And then she had kids. Having lost her own mother to cancer as a teenager, Lisa-Jo felt lost on her journey to womanhood and wholly unprepared to raise children. Surprised by Motherhood is Lisa-Jos story of becoming and being a mom, and in the process, discovering that all the what to expect and how to books in the world can never truly prepare you for the sheer exhilaration, joy, and terrifying love that accompanies motherhood. Set partly in South Africa and partly in the US (with a slight detour to Ukraine along the way), Surprised by Motherhood is a poignant memoir of one womans dawning realization that being a mom isnt about being perfectits about being present.
I'm Becoming My Mother
Anne Taintor
Author : Anne Taintor
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0811842479
I'm Becoming My Mother by Anne Taintor Pdf
"Hot on the heels of Anne Taintor's wildly popular first collection, I Can't Be Good All the Time, this hilarious volume brings together Taintor's best-loved images, plus brand new material sure to prompt a knowing snicker, all celebrating the follies of family, home, and hearth. As always, Taintor's sassy creations -- vintage illustrations paired with witty new and impertinent observations -- inspire deliciously less-than-well-mannered thoughts ("Gosh, he went well with her drapes."). These sharp-tongued favorites are sure to please her devoted fans and newcomers alike."--Publisher description.
For You Mom, Finally
Ruth Reichl
Author : Ruth Reichl
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101404300
For You Mom, Finally by Ruth Reichl Pdf
Bestselling author Ruth Reichl examines her mother's life-and gives voice to the unarticulated truths of a generation of exceptional women A former New York Times restaurant critic, editor in chief of Gourmet, and the author of three bestselling memoirs, Ruth Reichl is a beloved cultural figure in the food world and beyond. For You, Mom. Finally. is her openhearted investigation of the life of a woman she realizes she never really knew-her mother. Through letters and diaries-and a new afterword relating the wisdom she's gained after sharing her story-Reichl confronts the transition her mother made from a hopeful young woman to an increasingly unhappy older one and recognizes the huge sacrifices made to ensure that her daughter's life would not be as disappointing as her own.
And Now We Have Everything
Meaghan O'Connell
Author : Meaghan O'Connell
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316393836
And Now We Have Everything by Meaghan O'Connell Pdf
Selected as One of the Best Books of the Year by: National Public Radio, Esquire, Bustle, Refinery29, Thrillist, Electric Literature, Powell's, Autostraddle, BookRiot, Women.com "Smart, funny, and true in all the best ways, this book made me ache with recognition." -- Cheryl Strayed A raw, funny, and fiercely honest account of becoming a mother before feeling like a grown up. When Meaghan O'Connell got accidentally pregnant in her twenties and decided to keep the baby, she realized that the book she needed -- a brutally honest, agenda-free reckoning with the emotional and existential impact of motherhood -- didn't exist. So she decided to write it herself. And Now We Have Everything is O'Connell's exploration of the cataclysmic, impossible-to-prepare-for experience of becoming a mother. With her dark humor and hair-trigger B.S. detector, O'Connell addresses the pervasive imposter syndrome that comes with unplanned pregnancy, the fantasies of a "natural" birth experience that erode maternal self-esteem, post-partum body and sex issues, and the fascinating strangeness of stepping into a new, not-yet-comfortable identity. Channeling fears and anxieties that are still taboo and often unspoken, And Now We Have Everything is an unflinchingly frank, funny, and visceral motherhood story for our times, about having a baby and staying, for better or worse, exactly yourself.
Are You My Mother?
Alison Bechdel
Author : Alison Bechdel
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780547524368
Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel Pdf
The New York Times–bestselling graphic memoir about Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home, becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood…and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel’s own (serially monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back to Mother—to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers. A New York Times, USA Today, Time, Slate, and Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year “As complicated, brainy, inventive and satisfying as the finest prose memoirs.”—New York Times Book Review “A work of the most humane kind of genius, bravely going right to the heart of things: why we are who we are. It's also incredibly funny. And visually stunning. And page-turningly addictive. And heartbreaking.”—Jonathan Safran Foer “Many of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers. Alison Bechdel has written a graphic novel about this; sort of like a comic book by Virginia Woolf. You won't believe it until you read it—and you must!”—Gloria Steinem
Crazy Brave: A Memoir
Joy Harjo
Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393083897
Crazy Brave: A Memoir by Joy Harjo Pdf
A “raw and honest” (Los Angeles Review of Books) memoir from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination, a deep spiritual life, and connection with the natural world. Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love, Crazy Brave is a haunting, visionary memoir about family and the breaking apart necessary in finding a voice.
Not Like My Mother
Irene Tomkinson, MSW
Author : Irene Tomkinson, MSW
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781463463229
Not Like My Mother by Irene Tomkinson, MSW Pdf
Not Like My Mother This book is a gift for anyone who has ever said, I am NOT going to raise my kids the way I was raised!! If you are trying to be the parent you always wanted and didnt get, Irene will teach you why it is more effective that you be the parent your children need not the one you needed. How to separate what belongs to your history and what belongs in your present life is some of the rich, practical advice you will take away from Not Like My Mother. In the early distribution of Not Like My Mother readers reported they couldnt put the book down. It reads like a compelling novel with a human and spiritual insight that makes you feel a part of the conversation. YOU WILL WANT THIS BOOK FOR ALL YOURFAMILY AND FRIENDS!!!!!
On Becoming a Mother
Brigid McConville
Author : Brigid McConville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Birth customs
ISBN : 1780743904
On Becoming a Mother by Brigid McConville Pdf
Having a baby is a private miracle, yet it is also the source of much shared joy. For this reason, women and families in every country and every culture have customs to ensure that the journey into motherhood is marked and remembered. From yoga-inspired routines for resting during pregnancy to favorite proverbs printed on the khangas used to carry African newborns and the origins of the baby shower to the Japanese ritual where Sumo wrestlers make babies cry, each page of On Becoming a Mother is filled with inspiration, humor, and insight about the beginnings of parenthood. This beautifully curated collection of traditions, folk songs, stories, crafts, lessons, and advice from mothers around the world is the perfect gift for the new mother or mother-to-be.
A Life's Work
Rachel Cusk
Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher : Picador
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781466891630
A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk Pdf
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book, A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother is multi-award-winning author Rachel Cusk’s honest memoir that captures the life-changing wonders of motherhood. Selected by the New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years The experience of motherhood is an experience in contradiction. It is commonplace and it is impossible to imagine. It is prosaic and it is mysterious. It is at once banal, bizarre, compelling, tedious, comic, and catastrophic. To become a mother is to become the chief actor in a drama of human existence to which no one turns up. It is the process by which an ordinary life is transformed unseen into a story of strange and powerful passions, of love and servitude, of confinement and compassion. In a book that is touching, hilarious, provocative, and profoundly insightful, novelist Rachel Cusk attempts to tell something of an old story set in a new era of sexual equality. Cusk’s account of a year of modern motherhood becomes many stories: a farewell to freedom, sleep, and time; a lesson in humility and hard work; a journey to the roots of love; a meditation on madness and mortality; and most of all a sentimental education in babies, books, toddler groups, bad advice, crying, breastfeeding, and never being alone. “Funny and smart and refreshingly akin to a war diary—sort of Apocalypse Baby Now...A Life’s Work is wholly original and unabashedly true.”—The New York Times Book Review