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Title: The Hip Mama Survival Guide : Advice from the Trenches on Pregnancy, Childbirth, Cool Names, Clueless Doctors, Potty Training and Toddler Avengers by Ariel Gore ISBN: 0-7868-8232-8 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Buy This to Keep Your Sanity
Comment: Sadly, this was the 14th pregnancy book I bought and not the first... yet it was the one I was looking for all along. Entertaining and Informative... "Hip Mama" contains info that no other pregnancy book contains... such as "Can you breastfeed with pierced nipples" and "Are vibrators OK during pregnancy?" You may not be that alternative, but still the book is a good one...filled with good advice....and will help free you from the Bonds of "I Must Do Everything Perfectly (Including Have a Traditional Family Structure and a Gazillion Dollars) or Else My Baby Will Be A Freak" mentality. Five stars...absolutely.
Rating: 1
Summary: Superficial at Best; A Very Slanted View of Motherhood
Comment: I picked up this book at the library because I do not relate to most parenting things and find myself spending an absurd amount of time trying to find alternative parents, clothes, toys and activities. I don't know if I am hip but I am definitely not mainstream.
What a disappointment this book is!
It's all about white sophisticated liberal single teen moms living on food stamps. Yup. Broad demographic, ay! While I am sure there are about 100 women out there who are similar to the author and would enjoy a how-to guide uniquely tailored to these circumstances, this 35 year financially secure married woman who practiced birth control in her teens and 20s so as to avoid being a single mom living on food stamps really found little of value in this very auto-biographical tome.
Moreover, I find it almost insulting that someone who comes from an educated liberal background would presume to speak for destitute single moms who did not have access to the same choices she did.
When I think of women struggling to raise their children, I think about women who were raised in extreme poverty who do not have access to information about family planning and education/job training. I think about immigrant women who work 4 jobs just so their kids will have a better life. I certainly don't think of some clueless teenager partying in Mallorca who had a birth control lapse and then did not allow a little detail like pregnancy to upset her extended vacation in nearby Italy. Who upon arrival to the US, believes its her birthright to have taxpayers support her as she decides it's now time to go to college.
The saddest commentary I can make about this book is that while I despise Newt Gingrich and was overjoyed by his demise, the author succeeded in making me relate to him when she recounts her debate with him on MTV.
Rating: 2
Summary: I guess I'm not as "hip" as I thought
Comment: I think Ariel Gore is a wonderful writer. She's funny & she writes about feminist issues without being too preachy. I guess my problem with this book is that it wasn't for me. I'm a liberal, young, hip mom -- but not hip enough I guess. This book is geared toward really young moms, unwed moms, poor moms, moms without traditional partners, moms without partners at all, moms without cars, moms without shelter, etc. Having a husband, a house, a car & some money in the bank made a lot of this book irrelavent. The author makes it seem that if you aren't fighting to just get by that you aren't hip. Well, fine, I'm not hip then, I guess.
If you don't think you'll need to know how to get cheap legal advice to sue for custody, balance school & your kids from 4 different dads, or take the bus with your infant, you could probably just read another book. I suggest Naomi Wolfe's Misconceptions -- it's for the truly hip feminst mom, not the down & out one.
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Title: The Mother Trip: Hip Mama's Guide to Staying Sane in the Chaos of Motherhood by Ariel Gore, Ellen Forney ISBN: 1580050298 Publisher: Seal Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Breeder: Real-Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers by Ariel Gore, Bee Lavender, Dan Savage, Jonny Thief ISBN: 1580050514 Publisher: Seal Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Big Rumpus: A Mother's Tale from the Trenches by Ayun Halliday ISBN: 1580050719 Publisher: Seal Press Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Atlas of the Human Heart: A Memoir by Ariel Gore ISBN: 1580050883 Publisher: Seal Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other) Minute of It by Andrea J. Buchanan ISBN: 1580050824 Publisher: Seal Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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