It's a Boy : Women Writers on Raising Sons.
Title:
It's a Boy : Women Writers on Raising Sons.
Author:
Buchanan, Andrea J.
ISBN:
9780786746323
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (146 pages)
Contents:
Title Page -- Dedication -- Introduction -- IT'S A BOY -- Expectations - STEPHANY AULENBACK -- It's a Boy! - ANDREA J. BUCHANAN -- You've Got Male! - JODY MACE -- Exile in Boyville - MARRIT INGMAN -- Son of a Guy - ONA GRITZ -- A Son's Love - CAROLINE LEAVITT -- My Three Sons - JENNIFER MARGULIS -- Breaking the Curse - MARJORIE OSTERHOUT -- WILL BOYS BE BOYS? -- The Bully's Mother - KAREN E. BENDER -- Will Boys Be Boys? - ROCHELLE SHAPIRO -- Zen and the Art of Extracurricular Activities - GAYLE BRANDEIS -- Full House - FAULKNER FOX -- It Takes a Village - JENNIFER LAUCK -- Becoming a Boy - ROBIN BRADFORD -- Reading to My Son - KATE STAPLES -- Samuel - SUSAN ITO -- THE VELVET UNDERGROUND -- Entering the Den of Math - GWENDOLEN GROSS -- Chonan - SUZANNE KAMATA -- Things You Can't Teach - KATIE KAPUT -- Scaredy-Cat - JODI PICOULT -- The Velvet Underground - SUSAN O'DOHERTY -- Pretty Baby - CATHERINE NEWMAN -- Our Bodies,Their Selves - MARION WINIK -- SHAPESHIFTER -- Making the Cut - JAMIE PEARSON -- (Almost) All Grown Up - MAURA RHODES -- The Teenage Boy - KATIE ALLISON GRANJU -- The Day He Was Taller - JACQUELYN MITCHARD -- Shapeshifter - MELANIE LYNNE HAUSER -- Space Invader - LISA PEET -- Surrounded by Children - KATHRYN BLACK -- Notes -- Contributors -- Copyright Page.
Abstract:
The most popular question any pregnant woman is asked aside from "When are you due?" has got to be "Are you having a girl or a boy?" When author Andrea Buchanan, already a mom to a little girl, was pregnant with her second child, she marveled at the response of friends and total strangers alike: "Boys are wonderful," "Boys are so much better than girls," "Boys love their mothers differently than girls." This constant refrain led her to explore the issue herself, with help from her fellow writers and moms, many of whom had had the same experience.The result is It's A Boy, a wide-ranging, often-humorous, and honest collection of essays about the experience of mothering boys. Taking on topics like aggression, parenting a teenage boy, and wishing for a daughter but getting a son, It's A Boy explores what it's like to mother sons and how that experience may be different, but no less satisfying, than mothering girls.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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