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Choosing Motherhood After a Life of Ambivalence
Riverhead
April 2007
On Sale: March 22, 2007
224 pages
ISBN: 1594489432
EAN: 9781594489433
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
From the bestselling author whom Time
magazine hails as one of the leaders of her generation, an
insightful,
moving, and entertaining memoir of pregnancy and the decision to
conceive a child after years of uncertainty. Like many
women her
age, Rebecca Walker was brought up to be skeptical of
motherhood. A
young woman's future was limitless, their mothers'
generation told
them. A child could rob one of independence, economic freedom,
professional advancement, and just about everything else
worth having.
But all the empowerment and reproductive choice offered to this
generation, Walker now realizes, may actually have led to a
new kind of
struggle. For fifteen years Walker recognized a
persistent
yearning to have a baby but feared actually choosing to do
it. As a
result, she almost missed what she now knows to be the
single most
meaningful experience of her life. In Baby Love,
Rebecca Walker
tells the story of her pregnancy: not just the physical
evolution, but
also the emotional and intellectual transformation from
ambivalence to
certainty to unconditional love. It's the story of the birth
of her
son, as well as the tale of a generation-a wise,
thought-provoking, and
above all engaging memoir by a writer who has proven herself
to be an
important voice of her era.
About the Author
Rebecca Walker has
received numerous awards and accolades for her writing and
activism.
Her work has appeared in many anthologies and publications,
and her
books include the national bestseller Black, White, and
Jewish and the feminist anthology To Be Real,
which has become a standard text in women's studies courses
across the country.
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