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The Joys of Motherhood is a novel written by Buchi Emecheta. It was first published in London, UK, by Allison & Busby in 1979 and was first published in Heinemann 's African Writers Series in 1980 and reprinted in 1982, 2004, 2008.
Davey wrote that she read many of the works in the anthology after the birth of her son, “to break the isolation, for inspiration to keep going and do better, for the gratification of seeing my own experience so vividly mirrored…and for the unsurpassed enjoyment of extraordinary literature.” [1]
The book covers a three-month period during early motherhood when Edelman's three-year-old daughter developed an aggressive imaginary friend, prompting Edelman and her then-husband to make the unconventional choice to bring the child to Mayan healers in Belize in search of a spiritual cure. The story details Edelman's personal journey over ...
Publishers Weekly recommended the book to "mothers struggling to keep their heads above water" and wrote positively about Grose's blend of historical research and personal narrative. [5] Kirkus Reviews praised Grose's prose but criticized her historical analysis as being "more relevant to White, heterosexual, cisgendered mothers."
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Chan began writing the novel in 2014. [1] Chan was inspired to write about motherhood and parenting due to her anxiety over whether or not to have a child. [2] Two articles published in The New Yorker, one by Rachel Aviv concerning a mother's experience with family courts, and a second by Margaret Talbot about an effort in Providence to close the "word gap", both informed Chan as she wrote the ...
With Child: A Diary of Motherhood is a non-fiction book by Phyllis Chesler, a feminist who gave birth to a son, published on October 26, 1979 by T. Y. Crowell. Caroline Seebohm of The New York Times wrote that Chesler's status as one of several "so-called radical feminists" is a characteristic that "stands out of the crowd".
Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds is the fifth book published by New York Times bestselling author, activist and television personality Jenny McCarthy. [1] Her previous book, Louder Than Words , reached #3 on the New York Times bestseller list, and has more than 200,000 hardcovers in print after five printings.