Child of Mine Original Essay's on Becoming a Mother

by Kline, Christina Baker

• ISBN13: 9780786862337
• ISBN10: 0786862335
• Edition: Gift
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: Hachette Books

Summary

A moving collection of thirty-five personal essays, many written by popular female fiction and nonfiction authors like Naomi Wolf, Elissa Schappel and Mona Simpson, focuses on the powerful changes women experience as they become mothers.

Author Biography

Christina Baker Kline is a novelist and nonfiction writer. She is the author of the novel Sweet Water, and coauthor of The Conversation Begins: Mothers and Daughters Talk About Living Feminism. She has taught creative writing at Yale, New York University, and the University of Virginia, and currently resides in New York City with her husband, David, and her two children, Hayden and William.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Life Within Life	p. 13
In Search of the Maternal Instinct	p. 22
Waiting for Brendan	p. 32
Pokega, From the Heart	p. 39
Most Reluctantly Mother	p. 50
Spittin' Image	p. 61
Moral Terrors and Motherhood	p. 72
A Painless Labor	p. 85
Mother's Nature	p. 93
Thumbelina: The Complexities of Having a Pretty Little Girl	p. 103
Motherhood as Subversive Activity	p. 117
A Creation Story	p. 127
A Dangerous Thing to Hope For	p. 138
Initiation	p. 146
Baby Blues: A Journal	p. 155
Negotiating Violence	p. 171
Breastfeeding: The Agony and the Ecstasy	p. 181
The Last Nursing Mommy Tells All	p. 192
Metamorphosis	p. 202
The Eternal Now	p. 211
Real Me	p. 225
A Family Romance	p. 232
Bye Bye Baby: On Mother Guilt and Poverty	p. 243
The Hand That Pushes the Stroller	p. 254
Student Mother	p. 265
Confessions of a Lazy Mom	p. 275
Making It Work: My Life as a Career-Minded Mother	p. 287
The Buddy System	p. 297
My Choice	p. 307
Beginning	p. 319
List of Contributors	p. 327
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