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Bad Mother

Author : Ayelet Waldman
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0767932161
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Bad Mother written by Ayelet Waldman and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “hilarious, heartbreaking, and edgy” (Newsweek) memoir on modern motherhood. In our mothers’ day there were good mothers, indifferent mothers, and occasionally, great mothers. Today we have only Bad Mothers: If you work, you’re neglectful; if you stay home, you’re smothering. If you discipline, you’re buying them a spot on the shrink’s couch; if you let them run wild, they will be into drugs by seventh grade. Is it any wonder so many women refer to themselves at one time or another as a “bad mother”? Writing with remarkable candor, and dispensing much hilarious and helpful advice along the way—Is breast best? What should you do when your daughter dresses up as a “ho” for Halloween?—Ayelet Waldman says it's time for women to get over it and get on with it in this wry, unflinchingly honest, and always insightful memoir on motherhood in today's world.

Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a "Good" Mother Would Do

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Author : Sarah LaChance Adams
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231166753
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a "Good" Mother Would Do written by Sarah LaChance Adams and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a mother kills her child, we call her a bad mother, but, as this book shows, even mothers who intend to do their children harm are not easily categorized as ÒmadÓ or Òbad.Ó Maternal love is a complex emotion rich with contradictory impulses and desires, and motherhood is a conflicted state in which women constantly renegotiate the needs mother and child, the self and the other. Applying care ethics philosophy and the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir to real-world experiences of motherhood, Sarah LaChance Adams throws the inherent tensions of motherhood into sharp relief, drawing a more nuanced portrait of the mother and child relationship than previously conceived. The maternal example is particularly instructive for ethical theory, highlighting the dynamics of human interdependence while also affirming separate interests. LaChance Adams particularly focuses on maternal ambivalence and its morally productive role in reinforcing the divergence between oneself and others, helping to recognize the particularities of situation, and negotiating the difference between oneÕs own needs and the desires of others. She ultimately argues maternal filicide is a social problem requiring a collective solution that ethical philosophy and philosophies of care can inform.

You're Doing a Great Job!: 100 Ways You're Winning at Parenting

Author : Biz Ellis
Publisher : The Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 1682680061
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book You're Doing a Great Job!: 100 Ways You're Winning at Parenting written by Biz Ellis and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stop feeling like sh*t for being a mom—laugh-out-loud affirmations for every parent Guess what? This “parenting book” is not designed to make new parents feel bad. Authors and co-hosts of the popular comedy podcast One Bad Mother, Biz Ellis and Theresa Thorn, know firsthand that raising kids is tough. They also know that, most likely, parents are winning more than they’re failing. This book reminds parents that it’s okay to have a low bar. Celebrate what did happen, not what didn’t, including gems such as: Did you get up this morning? Great! You’re doing an awesome job! Your kid fell asleep? Even if it was just for two hours, that’s amazing. Good job! Has your kid eaten? That’s probably your doing, so yeah, you’re a winner! The perfect gift for the growing family, You Are Doing a Great Job! is the much-needed reminder to screw all expectations and advice. It belongs on the shelf next to Go the Fu*k to Sleep and Let’s Panic About Babies. Or better yet, tear out the pages and hang them up.

Good Mother, Bad Mother

Author : Gina Ford
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448146046
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Good Mother, Bad Mother written by Gina Ford and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pressurised by the media, scrutinised by their peers, frowned upon even by those closest to them, mothers today face relentless criticism and pressure. Breast or bottle? Work or stay at home? Routine or feeding-on-demand? The choices are infinite and at the heart of each question is the more controversial and divisive debate of what makes a good mother. Good Mother, Bad Mother is an illuminating, moving and thought-provoking study of this enigmatic question. Never before has the subject of motherhood been tackled with such unflinching honesty. Drawing on her experience of thousands of mothers, bestselling parenting author Gina Ford has turned her attention to the women charged with bringing up the next generation. She addresses the challenges of contemporary motherhood and fervently argues that these awe-inspiring women seldom receive the support, respect and admiration they deserve. And for the first time, in a candid, personal account, Gina interweaves stories from her own childhood, revealing how her relationship with her own mother has shaped the choices she has made. Any woman who has ever doubted her capabilities as a mother will find comfort and reassurance in the insights of the woman whose books have been justly described a 'godsend'.

The Bad Mother

Author : Amanda Brooke
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0008219168
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The Bad Mother written by Amanda Brooke and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That’s what he wants you to think...

Bad Mothers

Author : Tamar Hager
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781772581034
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Bad Mothers written by Tamar Hager and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the image or construct of the "good mother" has been the focus of many research projects, the "bad mother," as a discursive construct, and also mothers who do "bad" things as complicated, agentic social actors, have been quite neglected, despite the prevalence of the image of the bad mother across late modern societies. The few researchers who address this powerful social image point out that bad mothers are culturally identified by what they do, yet they are also socially recognized by who they are. Mothers become potentially bad when they behave or express opinions that diverge from, or challenge, social or gender norms, or when they deviate from mainstream, white, middle class, heterosexual, nondisabled normativity. When suspected of being bad mothers, women are surveilled, and may be disciplined, punished or otherwise excluded, by various official agents (i.e. legal, medical and welfare institutions), as well as by their relatives, friends and communities. Too often, women are judged and punished without clear evidence that they are neglecting or abusing their children. Frequently they are blamed for the marginal sociocultural context in which they are mothering. This anthology presents empirical, theoretical and creative works that address the construct of the bad mother and the lived realities of mothers labeled as bad. Throughout the volume, the editors consider voices and acts of resistance to bad mother constructions, demonstrating that mothers, across time and across domains, have individually and collectively taken a stand against this destructive label.

The Bad Mother

Author : Marguerite Andersen
Publisher : Second Story Press
ISBN 13 : 1772600016
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (726 download)

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Download or read book The Bad Mother written by Marguerite Andersen and published by Second Story Press. This book was released on 16-03-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trillium Award-winning autobiographical novel "La mauvaise mere" by Marguerite Andersen is now in English. Prolific author Marguerite Andersen traces the important moments of her life in this honest and harrowing examination of motherhood. She gives an unflinching account of her relationship with her three children and her years spent following her caprices and lovers, trying to regain the agency she lost when she became a mother. Born in Germany, Andersen was fifteen years old when World War II began. Just into her twenties, she became pregnant with her first son and moved to Tunisia with her French lover before the birth. They soon were married and it was not long before the relationship became abusive. Andersen fled, leaving her children behind. She confesses the large and small choices that she made -- the times she stayed and the times she didn't -- all the while asking herself, "What kind of mother am I?" The story is fuelled by emotion as Andersen revisits a period of her life that tortures her still today.

The Bad Mother

Author : Nancy Rommelmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982866900
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book The Bad Mother written by Nancy Rommelmann and published by . This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary always woke up when the buses started rolling down Hollywood Boulevard, not from the noise coming in the windows but the exaust. Just another day of street life for a young homeless girl.

Confessions of a Bad Mother

Author : Stephanie Calman
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 : 1743030711
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Bad Mother written by Stephanie Calman and published by Pan. This book was released on 2005-09-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny, acutely observed, frighteningly honest and drawing on her own and hundreds of other mum's real experiences, Stephanie Calman serves up the perfect antidote to all those books that tell you that your children must be perfect, and to all those Stepford mums and kids out there who look as if they just might be: perfectly groomed, perfectly behaved and perfectly brilliant. The reality, as we all know, encompasses sleepless nights, no sex for years, baby sick on your best cashmere cardy, the terrible twos and then, just when you thought it was safe to go back in the sitting room, terrible teenagers whose only means of communication is the slamming door or the grunt.

The Emotionally Absent Mother, Second Edition: How to Recognize and Cope with the Invisible Effects of Childhood Emotional Neglect (Second)

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Author : Jasmin Lee Cori
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1615193839
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book The Emotionally Absent Mother, Second Edition: How to Recognize and Cope with the Invisible Effects of Childhood Emotional Neglect (Second) written by Jasmin Lee Cori and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The groundbreaking guide to self-healing and getting the love you missed “Years ago, I was on vacation and read The Emotionally Absent Mother. That book was one of many that woke me up. . . . I began the process of reparenting and it’s changed my life.”—Dr. Nicole LePera, New York Times–bestselling author of How to Do the Work Was your mother preoccupied, distant, or even demeaning? Have you struggled with relationships—or with your own self-worth? Often, the grown children of emotionally absent mothers can’t quite put a finger on what’s missing from their lives. The children of abusive mothers, by contrast, may recognize the abuse—but overlook its lasting, harmful effects. Psychotherapist Jasmin Lee Cori has helped thousands of men and women heal the hidden wounds left by every kind of undermothering. In this second edition of her pioneering book, with compassion for mother and child alike, she explains: Possible reasons your mother was distracted or hurtful—and what she was unable to give The lasting impact of childhood emotional neglect and abuse How to find the child inside you and fill the “mother gap” through reflections and exercises How to secure a happier future for yourself (and perhaps for your children).

Bad Mother #1

Author : Christa Faust
Publisher : AWA Studios
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bad Mother #1 written by Christa Faust and published by AWA Studios. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nerve-racking thriller from crime writer Christa Faust and blockbuster artist Mike Deodato Jr. (The Resistance, Infinity Wars). April Walters is a hit-and-run victim of life – a middle-aged soccer mom whose inner fire has been snuffed out by her dreary suburban existence. When her teenaged daughter goes missing under mysterious circumstances, April embarks on a harrowing mission to find her; a journey that takes her through the underbelly of her suburban community and sets her on a collision course with a massive crime syndicate and its lethal matriarch. Tested to her limits and beyond, April discovers that hell hath no fury like a mother scorned.

The Bad Mother's Diary

Author : Suzy K. Quinn
Publisher : Bad Mother Series
ISBN 13 : 9781785631566
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Bad Mother's Diary written by Suzy K. Quinn and published by Bad Mother Series. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Mummy Drinks meets Bridget Jones. The first in the bestselling comedy series. Juliette is a new mother, but life isn't going the way she'd hoped. She doesn't live in a cottage with roses around the door. She doesn't own a rolling pin. And Daisy's out-of-work actor father still hasn't proposed. While Juliette sobs her way through sleepless nights and nappy changes, Nick drinks Guinness and plays computer games. Meanwhile, his helicopter mother is always on hand to find fault--with Juliette. At least when Nick pops the question, things will look up...won't they? With a supporting cast including Juliette's over-honest mother, potty-mouthed grandmother, militant hippy best friend, and handsome-but-scarred hotel magnate Alex Dalton, the first in Suzy K Quinn's hilarious, bestselling Bad Mother series is a sassy, uplifting, addictive treat.

The Bad Mother

Author : Isabelle Grey
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 0857386506
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book The Bad Mother written by Isabelle Grey and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pageturning, emotional read for fans of Linda Green and Jill Childs Are there secrets that should never be told? If so, how far must a mother go to keep them? Tessa Parker runs a successful B&B in a seaside town. During a surprise visit, a long-lost aunt lets slip a family secret with devastating consequences. Navigating her own turmoil at a crucial moment in her children's lives, Tessa's search for her birth father forces her to decide who she really wants to be. But now her son is missing. Has she left it too late to be a good mother? This ebook edition contains extra book club discussion questions penned by the author.

The Bad Mother's Christmas

Author : Suzy K Quinn
Publisher : Bad Mother
ISBN 13 : 9781785631603
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book The Bad Mother's Christmas written by Suzy K Quinn and published by Bad Mother. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas. A time for family. But what if your family is a total mess? Juliette and Alex are finally getting hitched, which should be joyous news. But Juliette is now entering "blended family" territory: Alex will be Daisy's stepfather, and Daisy's real father is not happy about it. Yes, after messing up Juliette's family the first time around, Nick is still trying to elbow his way back into her life, doing everything he can to stop her from being with Alex. And Alex's family are hardly rolling out the red carpet. To them, their new daughter-in-law is a slattern with a Jaffa Cake addiction. But Christmas is the thing that will bring them all together. And Juliette is determined that this Christmas will be a wonderfully happy family affair. Determined. Now, where did she put that Jaffa Cake? The fourth in Suzy K. Quinn's bestselling Bad Mother series is a sparkly, shiny Christmas romantic comedy for mothers, and the perfect Yuletide treat.

The Bad Mother's Handbook

Author : Kate Long
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307416895
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Bad Mother's Handbook written by Kate Long and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BAD MOTHER RULE #1: NEVER, EVER, DO WHAT I DID! For seventeen-year-old Charlotte Cooper, it’s too late. Despite her best efforts to finish school, tune out her angry, slightly hysterical mother, and cope with her loving but dotty grandmother, she is unexpectedly (now that’s an understatement) pregnant. And don’t even mention the jerk who knocked her up. Charlotte’s mother, Karen, is trying to convince herself that there are worse things than becoming a grandmother at thirty-three. For instance, there’s wanting to kill Charlotte for the mess she’s made of her life. Between struggling to pay the bills and halfheartedly filling out questionnaires on Internet dating sites, Karen uncovers a scandalous family secret involving her own birth, and then falls back into bed with her sexy ex-husband. So much for perfect timing. In the meantime, Karen’s mother, Nan, is having a wee bit of trouble with names (sometimes her own). But that doesn’t keep her from retaining a few things she’d rather forget. Of course, Nan knows that everything will work out fine for Charlotte and the baby–these things usually do. Now, if only she could put the pieces of her own fragmented memory together, she might have an interesting tale or two to share. In this wickedly funny, disarmingly moving novel, three generations of mothers learn that it’s the simplest mistakes that can change your life forever. With wit and wisdom, Kate Long proves that there are as many kinds of mothers as there are daughters, but the love that binds them all is what truly matters.

Women with a Thirst for Destruction

Author : Jenny Kaminer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780810129467
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book Women with a Thirst for Destruction written by Jenny Kaminer and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2014 AWSS Best Book in Slavic/East European/Eurasian Women's Studies In Russian culture, the archetypal mother is noble and self-sacrificing. In Women with a Thirst for Destruction, however, Jenny Kaminer shows how this image is destabilized during periods of dramatic rupture in Russian society, examining in detail the aftermath of three key moments in the country s history: the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the fall of the Communist regime in 1991. She explores works both familiar and relatively unexamined: Leo Tolstoy s Anna Karenina, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin s The Golovlev Family, Fyodor Gladkov s Cement, and Liudmila Petrushevskaia s The Time: Night, as well as a late Soviet film (Vyacheslav Krishtofovich s Adam s Rib, 1990) and media coverage of the Chechen conflict. Kaminer s book speaks broadly to the mutability of seemingly established cultural norms in the face of political and social upheaval. "

The School for Good Mothers

Author : Jessamine Chan
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The School for Good Mothers written by Jessamine Chan and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this taut and explosive debut novel, one lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance.Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn't have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents' sacrifices. She can't persuade her husband, Gust, to give up his wellness-obsessed younger mistress. Only with Harriet, their cherubic daughter, does Frida finally attain the perfection expected of her. Harriet may be all she has, but she is just enough.Until Frida has a very bad day.The state has its eyes on mothers like Frida. The ones who check their phones, letting their children get injured on the playground; who let their children walk home alone. Because of one moment of poor judgment, a host of government officials will now determine if Frida is a candidate for a Big Brother-like institution that measures the success or failure of a mother's devotion.Faced with the possibility of losing Harriet, Frida must prove that a bad mother can be redeemed. That she can learn to be good.A searing page-turner that is also a transgressive novel of ideas about the perils of "perfect" upper-middle-class parenting; the violence enacted upon women by both the state and, at times, one another; the systems that separate families; and the boundlessness of love, The School for Good Mothers introduces, in Frida, an everywoman for the ages. Using dark wit to explore the pains and joys of the deepest ties that bind us, Chan has written a modern literary classic.