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Because I said so : 33 mothers write about children, sex, men, aging, faith, race, and themselves / from the editors of Mothers who think Camille Peri & Kate Moses.

1st ed.

New York, N.Y. : Harper Collins, ©2005.

xxi, 372 pages ; 23 cm

This collection of honest essays edited by Peri and Moses captures the challenges of motherhood in the twenty-first century as no other book has. Told in prose that is as frank as it is lyrical, this is the collective voice of real mothers in all their humor, anger, vulnerability, grace, and glory.--[book jacket].

Motherhood.

Child rearing.

Families.

Mothers -- Social conditions.

Nuclear families.

Peri, Camille.

Moses, Kate.

Includes bibliographical references pages (363-369).

The scarlet letter z / Asra Q. Nomani -- Two heads are better than three / Mary Roach -- Materials girls / margaret Talbot -- Prayin' hard for better dayz / Camille Peri -- Thirteen / Janet Fitch -- On giving hope / Mariane Pearl -- Harry Potter and divorce among the muggles / Constance Matthiessen -- Escape from the devil's playground / Ariel Gore -- Boys! Give me boys! / Jennifer Allen -- Why I can never go back to the French Laundry / Jean Hanff Korelitz -- There's no being sad here / Denise Minor -- Was he black or white? / Cecelie S. Berry -- Motherlove / Ayelet Waldman -- Immaculate conception / Fufkin Vollmayer -- Thin, blonde, and drunk / Kristen Taylor -- Fight club / Rahna Reiko Rizzuto -- Chaos theory / Mary Morris -- Are hunters born or made? / Ana Castillo -- Wolves at the door / Karin L. Stanford -- Mothers just like us / Debra Ollivier -- Iranian revelation / Katherine Whitney -- Survivor / Andrea Lawson Gray -- Bald single mother does not seek date / Christina Koenig -- Natural mother / Lisa Teasley -- No blame / Rosellen Brown -- Why I left my children / Mari Leonardo -- Invisible worlds / Nora Okja Keller -- The babysitters' club / Ann Hulbert -- Ourselves, carried forward / Beth Kephart -- Dude, where's my family? / Margaret Remick -- My surrogate / Charo Gonzalea -- The belly unbuttoned / Susan Straight -- Mother of the world / Kate Moses.

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