Pregnancy is a pain. Labor is a real pain. Breastfeeding can involve pain. Childcare can be a pain.
These things shock--just shock!--Susan Maushart. I'm not sure why. I doubt anyone can really appreciate the extent to which all of the above statements are true until they experience them, but reading Susan whine about it for 200+ pages isn't particularly helpful.
Can you tell that this book annoyed me? Not recommended.
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Wednesday, January 12, 2005
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1 comment:
Rosalynde here.
I read this before I had kids, and I remember mentally composing lots of rebuttals as I read it. Still, it was the first time I had encountered a rigorous look at motherhood, and one of my first exposures to the critical motherhood genre, and it was helpful in that sense. Even more shocking, my extremely conservative, strait-laced, down-the-line stay-at-home-mom cousin-in-law absolutely loved it, and found it very liberating to be able to talk freely about the difficulties she experienced. So my review would be more mixed than yours.
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