It’s been over a decade since Ariel Gore, in a caffeine-induced brainstorm, invented Hip Mama as her senior project in college. The zine that has grown up alongside Gore’s daughter, has covered subjects from weaning to home schooling with a political edge and a puckish sense of humor. The Essential Hip Mama captures the heart of a decade’s worth of earthy, honest, soulful parenting—and topics from circumcision to dating, abortion to the (mistaken) belief that “mothers don’t fart.” Gore has gathered in one volume the whispers and conversations heard in homes, on playgrounds, and in coffeehouses around the country. Reassuring and hopeful, The Essential Hip Mama is a brilliant testament that one becomes an “expert” simply through the act of mothering, echoing Gore’s own words, “Whenever I’ve needed parenting advice, I’ve put out a call for submissions.” This paperback original offers the most hilarious and heart-wrenching essays from ten years of this quintessential alternative-parenting bible.
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This is your life when you're in a dream at 5 A.M., running fast with your arms empty, and you wake up to a screech and you think maybe you hopped a train, but then you feel something warm next to you in bed, and you remember you had a baby three weeks ago. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hip Mama, The Essential, New York, New Jersey, Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday, Thursday Friday Saturday, Nobody Said, Cosma Shiva, Planned Parenthood, San Francisco Bay Area, Seal Press, Teenage Single Mom New!
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This is your life when you're in a dream at 5 A.M., running fast with your arms empty, and you wake up to a screech and you think maybe you hopped a train, but then you feel something warm next to you in bed, and you remember you had a baby three weeks ago. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hip Mama, The Essential, New York, New Jersey, Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday, Thursday Friday Saturday, Nobody Said, Cosma Shiva, Planned Parenthood, San Francisco Bay Area, Seal Press, Teenage Single Mom New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Of Woman Born - Motherhood As Experience And Institution by Adrienne Rich on page 44
- The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom by Katherine Arnoldi on page 67
- For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence by Alice Miller on page 200
- Whipped: 20 Erotic Stories of Female Dominance by Carol Queen in Back Matter
- Beyond One: Growing a Family and Getting a Life by Jennifer Bingham Hull in Back Matter
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