The Mask of Motherhood: How Becoming a Mother Changes Our Lives and Why We Never Talk About It
8 best books like The Mask of Motherhood: How Becoming a Mother Changes Our Lives and Why We Never Talk About It (Susan Maushart): I Love Dick, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic, The Millstone, Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace, Min kamp 2, The Mother Zone, Maternal Desire: On Children, Love, and the Inner Life, Floral One Line a Day: A Five-Year Memory Book (Blank Journal for Daily Reflections, 5 Year Diary Book)
| Author | Chris Kraus |
| ISBN | 1584350342 |
In I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tears away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that upon its publication in 1997, I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted...
Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
| Author | Esther Perel |
| ISBN | 0060753633 |
Esther Perel takes on tough questions, grappling with the obstacles and anxieties that arise when our quest for secure love conflicts with our pursuit of passion. She invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire, and explains what it takes to bring lust home.
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| Author | Margaret Drabble |
| ISBN | 0156006197 |
Margaret Drabble’s affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, is about a casual love affair, an unplanned pregnancy, and one young woman’s decision to become a mother. Rosamund Stacey is young and inexperienced at a time when sexual liberation is well on its way. She conceals her ignorance...
Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace
| Author | Sara Ruddick |
| ISBN | 0807014095 |
This book really surprised me. Ruddick gets caricatured as the epitome of essentialist, naive, white solipsistic, middle class, US centric feminism. She’s actually much more self-aware and critical in her claims that she gets credit for. Of course, she must be supplemented with work by feminist/maternal...
Having left his first wife, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, Sweden, where he leads a solitary existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectual and boxing fanatic named Geir. He also tracks down Linda, whom he met at a writers' workshop a few...
| Author | Marni Jackson |
| ISBN | 0679312145 |
Nights of no sleep, steeped in equal parts love, resentment and bodily fluids. The most intense tenderness warring with the deepest despair. The biggest question on a new mother’s mind: WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME IT WOULD BE LIKE THIS? Marni Jackson’s touching, funny and provocative journey through...
Maternal Desire: On Children, Love, and the Inner Life
| Author | Daphne de Marneffe |
| ISBN | 0316110280 |
This book seeks to legitimize stay at home motherhood from a psychological perspective by positioning the desire to mother as an authentic, real wish for some women. Most of the book is spent refuting the traditional feminist view that real women's lib is women & men working equal hours outside...
Floral One Line a Day: A Five-Year Memory Book (Blank Journal for Daily Reflections, 5 Year Diary Book)
| Author | Yao Cheng |
| ISBN | 1452164614 |
A sweet new version of the classic bestselling One Line a Day 5 Year Memory Book, Floral One Line a Day features vibrant floral watercolor artwork on its cover and within. With foil-stamped accents, gilded page edges, and a silky ribbon marker, this strikingly beautiful five-year diary brings unexpected...
