Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood
An essay anthology that grew out of Salon’s popular column and gathers many voices around the contradictions, joys, and frustrations of being a mother. It is less about parenting tips than about the wider social experience of motherhood.
Work Information
Motherhood is presented not as a simple feeling but as an experience full of contradiction.
Edited by Camille Peri and Kate Moses, this anthology gathers writing by mothers and around mothers. It ranges from day-to-day parenting to self-image, family relations, and cultural expectations.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Villard
- Published
- 1999-04-06
- Pages
- 304 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 14.61 x 2.54 x 19.69 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780375502699
- ISBN-10
- 0375502696
- Price
- 9681 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Parenting & Families/Parenting
From the editors of the cutting-edge online magazine Salon come provocative essays that take an unflinching look at the gritty truths and unreserved pleasures of contemporary motherhood. Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood , which grew out of Salon's popular daily department of the same name, comprises nearly forty essays by writers grappling with the new and compelling ideas that motherhood has dangled before them. Elevating the discussion of motherhood above the level of tantrum control and potty training, this collection covers an unparalleled range of topics, from the impossibility of loving your children equally to raising a son without a father, from worrying that your privileged black child is becoming too "white" to the free-floating anger most mothers feel but wouldn't dare admit--except to other mothers. The intelligent, candid essays in Mothers Who Think are a testament to the notion that motherhood gives women more to think about, not less. Coeditors Camille Peri and Kate Moses have assembled the best writing from the website's first two years, including works by "Mothers Who Think" regulars Anne Lamott, Chitra Divakaruni, Susie Bright, and Stephanie Coontz; eloquent new essays by Jayne Anne Phillips, Sallie Tisdale, Susan Straight, Jane Lazarre, Nora Okja Keller, Beth Kephart, Ariel Gore, and Alex Witchel; and more than a dozen un-forgettable new voices. Irreverent, wistful, hilarious, fierce, tender, these essays offer an unsparing look at the myths and realities, serious and silly sides, and thankless and supremely satisfying aspects of being a mother. WRITERS Erin Aubry, Karen Grigsby Bates, Susie Bright, Stephanie Coontz, Chitra Divakaruni, Celeste Fremon, Mona Gable, Leslie Goodman-Malamuth, Ariel Gore, Arlene Green, Nora Okja Keller, Beth Kephart, Anne Lamott, Jane Lazarre, Lori Leibovich, Ceil Malek, Joyce Millman, Kate Moses, Beth Myler, Debra S. Ollivier, Camille Peri, Jayne Anne Phillips, Elizabeth Rapoport, Jennifer Reese, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Cynthia Romanov, Catherine A. Salton, Sandi Kahn Shelton, Rose Stoll, Susan Straight, Sallie Tisdale, Kim Van Meter, Cathy Wilkinson, Alex Witchel ON MOTHERHOOD Adoption, Babysitters, Baths, Birth, Blenders, Bodies, Boys Without Men, Brothers, Car Pools, Cold Coffee, College, Cupcakes, Custody, Daughters, Death, Diapers, Divorce, Dramas, Dreams, Escape, Expectations, Experience, Fantasies, Fathers, Food, Grandmothers, Growing Up, Gumbo, Home, Hunger, Kiddie Pools, Language, Lists, Love, Memories, Mothers, Nursing, Pets, Pregnancy, Pride, Princesses, Rage, School, Separation, Sex, Single Mothers, Sippy Cups, Sisters, Sleep Deprivation, Smells, Soccer Moms, Sons, Stepmothers, Tantrums, Teenagers, Time, Vibrators, Waterbeds, Working Mothers, Writing Mothers
Camille Peri is the editor of "Mothers Who Think." Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Parenting, Lear's, and Savvy. Kate Moses is a founding editor of "Mothers Who Think" and a senior editor at Salon. She was previously an editor at Berkeley's North Point Press and the literary director at San Francisco's Intersec-tion for the Arts. They both live in San Francisco with their families.
Reviews
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This collection of essays is strongly recommended for anyone who is a mom because it brings together experiences from all over, mom’s with disabled kids, mom’s with sports kids, mom’s living abroad
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This was my bath time luxury. Almost each story is a prefect read before your water gets too cold. "A Mothers Body" by Kate Moses still gives me goosebumps and makes me seek out my four year old boy and hold him close. And I thought the Drama Queen For A Day was a very clever series. Must admit though, I couldn't get over the title, "Mothers Who Think" as if there are mothers who don't. Like this is a book for smart mothers; those other mothers would never understand. Yeah right. And aside from a lot of great stories, the last story was a bit draggy. Also there's a story about a woman who decides to not be a mother. I remember feeling dissatisfied at the end of that story and had to find something else to read and add more hot water to my bath. But, mostly by the end of the book, I felt like these writers were my friends. I shared my ideas with their ideas and understanding of motherhood. I related to them, even when I disagreed with them. They reminded me of my own terrible thoughts, then reminded me that motherhood for us all, everywhere CAN be terrible along with being terribly ecstatic and terribly funny. May we all keep laughing at ourselves.
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Great book for new moms and current moms. You don't have to buy an expensive product for a gift-- often a used book that is a goodie is wonderful. This was one of those books-- it was given to me as a gift and then I purchased two others for gifts as well. I really connected with many of these stories =)
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... I was buying it this time as a gift for a new mother and unfortunately the book came in poor shape with brown stains along the side and red stains along the bottom of the pages, needless to say, had to be returned.
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This collection of essays is unexpectedly literary, though I should have expected that from the Salon.com editors. The essays range from groaning humor to shockingly poignant to intensely thought-provoking. Many deal with issues such as abortion, mother's sexuality, death of a child, that aren't really talked about. This read is going to stick with me for a long time.
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