Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence
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- Synopsis
- From the bestselling author whom Timemagazine hails as one of the leaders of her generation, an insightful, moving, and entertaining memoir of pregnancy and the decision to conceive a child after years of uncertainty. Like many women her age, Rebecca Walker was brought up to be skeptical of motherhood. A young woman's future was limitless, their mothers' generation told them. A child could rob one of independence, economic freedom, professional advancement, and just about everything else worth having. But all the empowerment and reproductive choice offered to this generation, Walker now realizes, may actually have led to a new kind of struggle. For fifteen years Walker recognized a persistent yearning to have a baby but feared actually choosing to do it. As a result, she almost missed what she now knows to be the single most meaningful experience of her life. In Baby Love, Rebecca Walker tells the story of her pregnancy: not just the physical evolution, but also the emotional and intellectual transformation from ambivalence to certainty to unconditional love. It's the story of the birth of her son, as well as the tale of a generation-a wise, thought-provoking, and above all engaging memoir by a writer who has proven herself to be an important voice of her era.
- Copyright:
- 2007
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 211 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781594489433
- Publisher:
- Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Date of Addition:
- 08/31/09
- Copyrighted By:
- Rebecca Walker
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Parenting and Family
- Submitted By:
- Allison Hilliker
- Proofread By:
- N/A
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.