The bitch in the house
Subtitle: 26 women tell the truth about sex, solitude, work, motherhood, and marriage
By: edited by Cathi Hanauer ; featuring all-original essays by Ellen Gilchrist ... [et al.].
Edition: 1st Perennial ed.
Publisher: Perennial
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780066211664; 9780060936464
Subjects: Social conditions; Interpersonal relations; Case studies; Women
Table of contents: title: Excuse me while I explode: my mother, myself, my anger  -- E.S. Maduro; title: Getting the milk for free  -- Veronica Chambers; title: Crossing to safety  -- Jen Marshall; title: Moving in, moving out, moving on  -- Sarah Miller; title: Papa don't preach  -- Kerry Herlihy; title: Memoirs of an ex-bride: looking back, looking ahead  -- Daphne Merkin; title: I do, not: why I won't marry  -- Catherine Newman; title: Killing the Puritan within  -- Kate Christensen; title: Houseguest hell: my home is not your home  -- Chitra Divakaruni; title: A man in the heart  -- Hazel McClay; title: Why I hate that my mother was right (well, about most things): turning into Elizabeth Taylor  -- Karen Karbo; title: How we became strangers  -- Jill Bialosky; title: Erotics 102: staying bad, staying married  -- Cynthia Kling; title: My marriage, my affairs  -- Hannah Pine; title: My mother's ring: caught between two families  -- Helen Schulman; title: Attila the honey I'm home  -- Kristin van Ogtrop; title: The myth of co-parenting: how it was supposed to be, how it was  -- Hope Edelman; title: Daddy dearest: what happens when he does more than his half?  -- Laurie Abraham; title: Crossing the line in the sand: how mad can mother get?  -- Elissa Schappell; title: Maternal bitch  -- Susan Squire; title: The origin, procreation, and hopes of an angry feminist  -- Natalie Angier; title: Married at 46: the agony and the ecstasy  -- Nancy Wartik; title: The fat lady sings  -- Natalie Kusz; title: The middle way: learning to balance family and work  -- Ellen Gilchrist; title: What independence has come to mean to me: the pain of solitude, the pleasure of self-knowledge  -- Vivian Gornick; title: The perfect equality of our separate chosen paths: becoming a mother, or not -- Pam Houston.