The Mother/Child Papers
Title | The Mother/Child Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Alicia Suskin Ostriker |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Pages | 101 |
Release | 2009-02-22 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0822978261 |
In 1970, as the war in Vietnam was heating up, Ostriker was awaiting the birth of her son. On April 30, President Nixon announced the bombing of Cambodia. On May 14, four students were shot and killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State University. The poems in this collection confront Ostriker’s personal tumult as she considered the world she had brought her son into.
The Mother/Child Papers
Title | The Mother/Child Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Alicia Ostriker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 2009-01-30 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
In 1970, as the war in Vietnam was heating up, Ostriker was awaiting the birth of her son. On April 30, President Nixon announced the bombing of Cambodia. On May 14, four students were shot and killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State University. The poems in this collection confront Ostriker’s personal tumult as she considered the world she had brought her son into.
The Mother Knot
Title | The Mother Knot PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Lazarre |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780822320395 |
A feminist classic and a valuable testimonial to the experience of mothering. Originally published in 1976 but still relevant today, this is a fierce, often funny, often painful description of Lazarre's first few years of motherhood.
Motherhood
Title | Motherhood PDF eBook |
Author | Sheila Heti |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2018-05-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1627790780 |
From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time Magazine) and the New York Times Bestseller Women in Clothes comes a daring novel about whether to have children. In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential decision of early adulthood with the candor, originality, and humor that have won Heti international acclaim and made How Should A Person Be? required reading for a generation. In her late thirties, when her friends are asking when they will become mothers, the narrator of Heti’s intimate and urgent novel considers whether she will do so at all. In a narrative spanning several years, casting among the influence of her peers, partner, and her duties to her forbearers, she struggles to make a wise and moral choice. After seeking guidance from philosophy, her body, mysticism, and chance, she discovers her answer much closer to home. Motherhood is a courageous, keenly felt, and starkly original novel that will surely spark lively conversations about womanhood, parenthood, and about how—and for whom—to live.
The Natural Mother of the Child
Title | The Natural Mother of the Child PDF eBook |
Author | Krys Malcolm Belc |
Publisher | Catapult |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2021-06-15 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1640094393 |
Krys Malcolm Belc's visual memoir-in-essays explores how the experience of gestational parenthood—conceiving, birthing, and breastfeeding his son Samson—eventually clarified his gender identity. Krys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender. As a nonbinary, transmasculine parent, giving birth to his son Samson clarified his gender identity. And yet, when his partner, Anna, adopted Samson, the legal documents listed Belc as “the natural mother of the child.” By considering how the experiences contained under the umbrella of “motherhood” don’t fully align with Belc’s own experience, The Natural Mother of the Child journeys both toward and through common perceptions of what it means to have a body and how that body can influence the perception of a family. With this visual memoir in essays, Belc has created a new kind of life record, one that engages directly with the documentation often thought to constitute a record of one’s life—childhood photos, birth certificates—and addresses his deep ambivalence about the “before” and “after” so prevalent in trans stories, which feels apart from his own experience. The Natural Mother of the Child is the story of a person moving past societal expectations to take control of his own narrative, with prose that delights in the intimate dailiness of family life and explores how much we can ever really know when we enter into parenting.
The Adoption Papers
Title | The Adoption Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Jackie Kay |
Publisher | |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
This work tells the story of a black girl's adoption by a white Scottish couple. The story is told from three different viewpoints - the mother, the birth mother and the daughter.
Key Papers from the Journal of Child Psychotherapy
Title | Key Papers from the Journal of Child Psychotherapy PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Barrows |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Child psychotherapy |
ISBN | 9781583912089 |
This book provides access to classic papers from the early years of the Journal - papers previously difficult to obtain. The papers are grouped thematically to cover the entire range of work represented in the journal: theoretical, clinical, applied.