ISBN10: 0285638203, ISBN13: 9780285638204, [publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd] Hardcover First Edition 224 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges are clean, neat and free of foxing. Items are shipped same day or next business day and are shipped directly from our Australian address. After a lifetime of ambivalence and uncertainty about the role of the mother Rebecca Walker decided to have a baby. She had been raised by her mother, the feminist novelist Alice Walker, as a member of a watershed generation of women who are the first to believe that no job or lifestyle is unattainable. Rebecca Walker had become one of America s most acclaimed young writers while Time magazine hailed her as one of the most influential leaders under forty. Baby Love is her wise, provocative and engaging memoir of her own pregnancy and a book about motherhood for a new generation. For those under forty parenthood can be seen to be the least empowering choice in a woman s options. The promise of having it all is ambiguous about motherhood, a woman risks being emotionally drained and intellectually stunted. In caring for her baby can a mother come to lose herself? Yet motherhood is the single most meaningful experience of her life. It is a decision that led her mother to end their relationship as Rebecca set out on her own physical and emotional journey to becoming a mother. ...
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