The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.60 (517 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060936460 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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This is the sound of the collective voice of successful women today-in all their anger, grace, and glory.From The Bitch In the House:“I believed myself to be a feminist, and I vowed never to fall into the same trap of domestic boredom and servitude that I saw my mother as being fully entrenched in; never to settle for a life that was, as I saw it, lacking independence, authority, and respect.” –E.S. Maduro, page 5“Here are a few things people have said about me at the office: ‘You’re unflappable.’ ‘Are you ever in a bad mood?’ Here are things people—okay, the members of my family—have said about me at home: ‘‘Mommy is always grumpy.’ ‘Why are you so tense?’ ‘You’re too mean to live in this house and I want you to go back to work for the rest of your life!’” –Kristin van Ogtrop, page 161“I didn’t want to be a
"'Two people in the same circumstances, having different experiences.'" according to Schmadrian. I read this book, then followed it with its bookend, 'The Bastard on the Couch'. It was a very interesting combination.This tone of 'Bitch' is dark. Lots of anger. Lots of complaint. Lots of railing from its authors at almost every turn. As with its precursor, 'Bastard' is written by accomplished writers (although admittedly there seem to be more editors on the distaff side), but the tone iswell, more . The Bitch in the House This book is a great find. The Bitch in the House made me realize I am not the only woman who thinks and feels the way I do. This book brings out the secrets of being a mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend and exposes them in black and white. This book redefines the "normal" for my generation. Thank you for putting it all out there.. "Made me feel normal!" according to Peter J. Sander. Okay, so I'm feeling a little bitchy in my life right now, trying to keep it all together as a working professional, loving wife, and mom to two young boys. Yep, just a bit bitchy right now just a teeny, tiny bit. And so it was a delightful emotional release to see that I'm NOT THE ONLY ONE out there who feels like this. That maybe I'm just a normal woman trying to get along in life, encouraged by the
I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other." Not entirely angry, it is ultimately a satisfying read. --Karin Rosman. That is the beauty of the book. Family and work. Jill Bialosky puts it most succinctly, "I had wanted to get married, but I realized now that I had never wanted to be a 'wife'." There are essays written by those who willfully, and often playfully, seek a life independent from domesticated routine, and others who have aged past the concerns of being a self-fulfilled and responsible mother. These postfeminist mothers, lovers, wives, and independent women candidly put forward their anger in the taffy-pull world of household responsibility. What could have been a collective gripe about the day-to-day routine of holding a family or relationship together is instead a witty, and sometimes bitchy, read. They have instead revealed modern motherhood, and solitude, as it