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(3.5) | None | The most popular question any pregnant woman is asked - aside from When are you due?" - has got to be "Are you having a girl or a boy?" When author Andrea Buchanan was pregnant with her daughter, she was thrilled to be expecting a girl. Some people were happy for her; visions of flouncy pink dresses and promises of mother-daughter bonding were the predictable responses. Other people, though, were concerned: "Is your husband OK with that?" "You can try again." "Girls are tough." This mixed message led her to explore the issue herself, with help from her fellow writers and moms, many of whom had had the same experience. As she did in It's a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons, Buchanan and her contributors take on what it's really like to raise a child-in this case, a girl-from babyhood to adulthood. It's a Girl, is a wide-ranging, often humorous, and honest collection of essays about the experience of the mother-daughter bond, taking on topics like "princess power" ("Shining, Shimmering, Splendid"), adding a girl to a brood of boys ("Confessions of a Tomboy Mom"), dealing with a daughter's eating disorder ("The Food Rules"), and mothering "hardcore mini-feminists" ("Tough Girls"). "… (more) |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English (1)▾Book descriptions The most popular question any pregnant woman is asked - aside from When are you due?" - has got to be "Are you having a girl or a boy?" When author Andrea Buchanan was pregnant with her daughter, she was thrilled to be expecting a girl. Some people were happy for her; visions of flouncy pink dresses and promises of mother-daughter bonding were the predictable responses. Other people, though, were concerned: "Is your husband OK with that?" "You can try again." "Girls are tough." This mixed message led her to explore the issue herself, with help from her fellow writers and moms, many of whom had had the same experience. As she did in It's a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons, Buchanan and her contributors take on what it's really like to raise a child-in this case, a girl-from babyhood to adulthood. It's a Girl, is a wide-ranging, often humorous, and honest collection of essays about the experience of the mother-daughter bond, taking on topics like "princess power" ("Shining, Shimmering, Splendid"), adding a girl to a brood of boys ("Confessions of a Tomboy Mom"), dealing with a daughter's eating disorder ("The Food Rules"), and mothering "hardcore mini-feminists" ("Tough Girls"). " ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Table of Contents
Her Perfect Woman / Carolyn Alessio
Shining, Shimmering, Splendid / Kim Fischer
Ladylike / Gabrielle Smith-Dluha
Tough Girls on Pink Bikes / Rebecca Steinetz
Confessions of a Tomboy Mom / Jacqueline Mitchard
Girl House / Yvonne Latty
Cheerleading / Miriam Peskowitz
It's a Girl / Martha Brockenbrough
On Being Barbie / Jenny Block
The Food Rules / Ann Douglas
Feeling is First: On Beauty and a Daughter / Gwendolen Gross
Breasts: A Collage / Rachel Hall
The World's Most Beautiful Baby: Take Two / Joyce Maynard
Baby Fat / Catherine Newman
Me and My Girls / Amy Bloom
Girl Talk / Suzanne Kamata
Daughter Dread / Vicky Mlyniec
Spilled Wine / Jennifer Margulis
Garden City / Jessica Berger Gross
Park Bench Epiphany / Kelly Harrington Johnson
A Strong Baby Girl / Emily Strong
Links / Jennifer Lauck
On Wanting a Girl / Shari MacDonald Strong
Zen Mind, Daughter's Mind / Gayle Brandeis
Twenty Minutes / Jill Siler
Isolation / Barbara Card Atkinson
Time Capsule / Jody Mace
The Boy We Didn't Have / Katharine Weber
Learning to Write / Andrea J. Buchanan
Passing it On / Leslie Fields
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