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by: Rebecca Walker
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.20092
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Riverhead Hardcover
Manufacturer: Riverhead Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: March 22, 2007
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Release Date: March 22, 2007
Sales Rank: 311262
Studio: Riverhead Hardcover
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From the bestselling author whom Time magazine 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.
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Rating:  - Emotionally Accurate
Rebecca Walker's _Baby Love_ is a fine articulation of the process a third wave feminist must undergo in her decision to have a child. Ms. Walker's honesty and mystification are akin to the feelings reflected in Peggy Orenstein's _Waiting for Daisy_. Her economic skepticism is echoed by Nan Mooney in _Not Keeping Up With Our Parents: The Decline of the Professional Middle Class_. Her ginger approach to coupling her existing identity with that of 'parent' is as intense as Judith Warner's _Perfect ... Read More
Rating:  - Absolutely loved this book
Narcissistic? She's writing a book about her experiences. I think honest is a better word. Being a mom over 35 myself, I related to much of Ms. Walker's experience with being a first time mom. Though I don't share all of her views, I do appreciate her honesty. Pregnancy wasn't easy for me and though I wanted a baby more than anything at the time, I can't say that I enjoyed being pregnant. I do not share Ms. Walker's view on non-biological children, but I understand how it is to love your biological ... Read More
Rating:  - Shallow-Sighted Navel-Gazer
I wanted to like this book. I was open to whatever revelations Rebecca Walker wanted to share about her journey to motherhood from a complicated past. By the time I finished the book, I was disgusted by her incredible narcissism. (And no, a memoir is certainly not narcissistic by definition, folks.)
Walker's claim that "one" can never love their adopted child as much as their biological child has already been addressed, so here are two other examples: She tells her mother that she has to ... Read More
Rating: - A GEM!
Baby Love was so helpful and enjoyable and captured several things I am going through. I am 37, recently married and pregnant w my love- also a son. I have read several pregnancy books but this book truly captured things I felt and was afraid to admit. The author is like an honest friend helping one laugh and feel calm and centered as baby takes over body. It helped the same way the show "sex and the city" helped when single and living in NYC.
I am hoping for a sequal about life w her son.
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Rating: - The Other side of Feminism
Just read an review on this in a British paper. It is about time that someone tells the truth about what damage the 60's approach to feminism has done.
I can't wait to read it.
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