A finely crafted and unique pro-feminist/pro-family position that calls for productive dialogue on quality childcare, Fruitful offers a personal and profound healing message for every woman torn between her own ambitions and her family's needs.
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Her riff on motherhood is passionate, lyrical, witty, insightful, commonsensical and off the wall. It will evoke shudders of recognition from anyone who has cared for a child. -- The New York Times Book Review, Emily MacFarquhar
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This review is from: Fruitful: A Real Mother (Paperback)
Just completed Roiphe's memoir 1185 Park Avenue- and loved it so much had to read what she was thinking about modern motherhood. As a working mother or two living in NYC Roihe speaks to women like me who are indeed struggling with career and family. For readers who are in this position, I think they will find the book most supportive and soothing. Roiphe makes the point well that working families with children do not have enough community support needed to sustain the demanding life of working mom -that America is too "nuclear". At the same time manages to debunk alot of of fervent feminist rhetoric that simply does not speak to most women's reality. However, Roiphe may have spent too much dissecting the old feminist rallying cries of anit-men and motherhood. I think most women living real life as mothers/workers in the current times realize that much of the feminist movement rhetoric are outdated. Recommended for those interested in a woman's very sensitive and thoughtful journey through motherhood.
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fascinating discussion,
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I really enjoyed this book. Ms. Roiphe does a very good job of portraying the conflicting thoughts and emotions of mothers who consider themselves feminists. She's very sympathetic to the importance of mothers and mothering, and I was relieved by that. This is not a feminist mother-"hating" book! Thank you, Ms. Roiphe!
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Mary Beth, Sylvia Plath, Betty Friedan, New York, Gloria Steinem, Adrienne Rich, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Philip Wylie, William Stern, Germaine Greer, Mary Gordon, Susan Smith, Anna Freud, Dorothy Parker, Lorena Bobbitt, Madison Avenue, Norman Mailer, Sara Ruddick, Susan Faludi New!
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- Against Our Will by Susan Brownmiller on page 23, and page 62
- The Baby Trap by Ellen Peck on page 234
- The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx on page 57
- The Mother Knot by Jane Lazarre on page 26
- The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall on page 34
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