Breeder: Real-Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers

Breeder: Real-Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers
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Geez, Can breeders just go away....

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I guess being unprepared for having kids makes you hip.

Pardon the cliche, but big waste of trees

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Breeder: Real-Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers

Manufacturer: Seal Press
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Binding: Paperback

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The voices of mothers--the real in-the-trenches voices of mothers--always threaten the status quo. Tell the truth about your ambivalence, rage, and passion--whether about miscarriage, breast pumps, or (as profiled here) your welfare-avoidance job as a stripper--and watch the general public recoil. But as every mother knows, there is nothing more comforting than finding another woman who is willing to sit in your kitchen and share the honest-to-God truth about mothering. So it takes a lot of best-girlfriend loyalty to write the gut-wrenching motherhood stories that you'll find in Breeder. And fortunately, coeditors Bee Lavender and Ariel Gore (The Hip Mama Survival Guide, The Mother Trip) had enough grit and pluck to get them published. (Both women are also the editors of the online and print magazine Hip Mama.)

This collection of Gen-X essays is especially courageous because of all the taboos it shatters. Writer Julie Jameson confesses that she was talking on the phone with her mom when she looked up and discovered that her teething son had found her newly purchased vibrator and was gnawing on the tip. Gayle Brandeis boasts about the heroic treks she's taken through the hidden folds of her children's bottoms, searching for pinworms like a cave explorer. Sara Manns writes about the desire to have a child with her lesbian wife, which leads her through the terrain of sperm donors, then miscarriage, and finally international adoption. And we can all be grateful to Peri Escarda for helping us find the "Perfect Name" to offer a daughter when she points between her legs and asks, "What's dat?"

Not all the stories are masterfully rendered. Some rely on raw urgency, such as Alex McCall's "Bomb Threat," in which she anxiously retrieves her daughter from a federal-building childcare facility on the same day as the Oklahoma City bombing. Yet many offer mature crafting as well as tender narration. When Min Jin Lee became pregnant, she thought about her own Korean immigrant upbringing and her downtrodden mother's enormous sacrifices. She writes, "These were my fears: One day my child would feel the need to make my life whole through her accomplishments, or worse, as an adult, she would be unable to ever remember me smiling at her as a little girl." Jessica Rigney writes a chillingly exquisite story about altering her family's legacy of suicide and silence through the conscious mothering of her son. These are the rough-and-ready voices of the next wave of motherhood, and like the generation of feminists before them, they continue to break new, fertile ground. One can hardly wait to hear the voices of their daughters. --Gail Hudson

Book Description

In this ground-breaking anthology, Ariel Gore and Bee Lavender ask real moms — from Web site designers to tattoo-clad waitresses — to laugh, cry, scream, and shout about motherhood. Allison Crews fights to have a voice and be recognized as a teen mother. Angela Morrill eschews both doctors and midwife and gives birth at home. Kimberly Bright draws compelling comparisons between “raising a toddler and having a psychotic boyfriend.” For every young mom, Breeder offers inspiration, strength, wisdom, and humor. Contributors include Allison Crews, Beth Lucht, Ayun Halliday, Katie Granju, Peri Escarda, Allison Abner, and Kimberly Bright.

Customer Reviews:

Geez, Can breeders just go away...........2007-08-23

As a professional women, I think women should do whatever makes them happy as long as they can afford to financially support their choice.
But please, This is not God's work, this is Fu**ing and getting knocked up.
I personally feel the smarter you are, the less kids you will chose to have. I have never desired children and cannot stand to be in the presence of other women that do. Strangely enough, women today seem to be the worst mothers ever. The kids today are so ill bred, no wonder there are so many of us happily childfree out there.
And the women are obnoxious, entitlement seeking, fat, and loud. NO wonder your husbands are screwing around on you from day 1.....
think about how happy you and your spouse would be without any damn kids, I know we are.

Read this.......2003-11-21

I can't get over the guilt or whining of some of the soccer moms. The majority of the parenting books cater to YOU! This book was a refreshing anthology of different mamas, different breeders. I usually buy this book and _Mothers Who Think_ for my pregnant friends under about 35. I think this book speaks to various people and not just the mini-van crowd, who have shelves of books to choose from in any bookstore!

I guess being unprepared for having kids makes you hip........2003-11-15

I can't say that some of the essays weren't well-written, because they were. My problem was the content. I'm not Mrs. Brady by a long shot, I thought I was forward-thinking, a feminist, a hip-mama, but apparently, if you want to stick to the confines of this collection, if you aren't on welfare, a single-mom, or a teenager, in an alternative relationship or all of the above, you aren't from the "New Generation of Mothers". Personally, that's okay with me. I'll just go on being a good mother with a secret punk rock past & realise that by having planned out my pregnancy with my husband when we could afford it that I'm just one of those supposed-SUV driving soccer moms that all the other parenting books cater to. Shame on Ariel Gore for being so narrow-minded in her view of the new generation of mothers. Shame on these supposive feminists for being irresponisble in their breeding & then claiming it a victory for feminism.

Pardon the cliche, but big waste of trees.......2002-07-11

I would give this zero stars given the chance. First, the title is very misleading. These are not essays by "the new generation of mothers," but rather teen, welfare and wanna-be hippie moms. These flighty, immature, irresponsible writers do NOT represent my generation. (I am 30.) Just take a glimpse at the biographies in the back before you decide to read this drivel. One author is described as a "second generation welfare mama." Now there's a source of pride. These essays include the story of a teenage birth mother who led a potential adoptive couple to believe she was going to give them her baby, then changed her mind after the baby was born, as well as the story of a woman who aborted her baby after she decided to let her body be a pawn to the patriarchy. I am paraphrasing, but trust me, the actual language is even more ridiculous. There are a couple of semi-decent essays here, but it's not worth wading through the rest to find them.

EXCELLENT.......2002-07-02

I truly enjoyed this book and have passed it on to friends. It is a great read whether you have kids or not.

Westward Vision: The Story of the Oregon Trail (Bison Book)

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Fascinating.
A magnificent tale of stubborn true grit
Eminent

Westward Vision: The Story of the Oregon Trail (Bison Book)
David Lavender
Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
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“In one very real sense,” David Lavender writes, “the story of the Oregon Trail begins with Columbus.” This opening suggests the panoramic sweep of his history of that famous trail. In chiseled, colorful prose, Lavender illustrates the “westward vision” that impelled the early explorers of the American interior looking for a northwest passage and send fur trappers into the region charted by Lewis and Clark. For the emigrants following the trappers’ routes, that vision gradually grew into a sense of a manifest American destiny.

Lavender describes the efforts of emigration societies, of missionaries like Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, and of early pioneer settlers like Hall Jackson Kelley, Jason Lee, and Thomas Jefferson Farnham, as well as the routes they took to the “Promised Land.” He concludes by recounting the first large-scale emigrations of 1843–45, which steeled the U. S. government for war with Mexico and agreements with Britain over the Oregon boundary.

Customer Reviews:

Fascinating........2005-08-21

Noted historian David Lavender has penned probably the finest single volume on the Oregon Trail ever written. Starting in 1719, 130 years before the trail was formally established, Lavender slowly and concretely builds the story of the United States first claim to this territory by examining similar efforts by the Spanish, French, Russian and English which preceded the American claims.

Incorporating and firmly underscoring the efforts of the Native Americans, the Mountain Men, Hudson's Bay Company and the early missionary efforts, Lavender reveals that these four groups did more to claim the Northwest for the United States than any politician or political party in Washington. Always in the forefront of Western Expansion, the impact of the missionary effort was pivotal to the US claim to this Norwest portion of our nation.

This is a truly fine history and a remarkably excellent piece of writing.

A magnificent tale of stubborn true grit.......2002-09-03

David Lavender's WESTWARD VISION spans the period from the mid-17th century to 1849 as he chronicles the search for a reliable overland route to, and the subsequent settlement of, what would become known as Oregon, principally that area which borders the Willamette River as it flows into the Columbia (at present-day Portland). As the subtitle of the book indicates, this is "the story of the Oregon Trail".

For the sake of summary, I arbitrarily divide this book into five parts: early exploration of the Upper Mississippi River by French-Canadians seeking a route to the "western sea", the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the subsequent unsuccessful efforts to establish an easy route to Oregon via the Missouri River and its headwaters, the influx of "mountain men" into the area and the discovery of a more southerly route (the Oregon Trail), the early settlement in Oregon of Christian missionary groups sent to proselytize the Indians, and the massive immigration of land-seekers in the 1840's which ultimately resulted in the establishment of a U.S. Oregon Territory.

WESTWARD VISION is the result of extensive research on the part of the author. Its wealth of details is both its strong point and its undoing. Probably the most commendably concise chapters (5 and 6), considering the length of the event, deal with the amazing Lewis and Clark Expedition. Perhaps Lavender thought the history of the two-year trek adequately covered elsewhere. In any case, the following chapters on the exploits and travails of the fur-trapping mountain men and the missionaries are so full of minutiae that it would require the reader to take extensive notes in order to keep track of the various groups and individuals endeavoring to cross the Great Divide into Oregon in the 1820s and 30s. (Reading this book for pleasure, I wasn't prepared to expend that much effort.) Only in Chapter 19, which gives an account of the 1843 journey of the first large immigrant train - almost 1000 persons- over the Oregon Trail, does the narrative regain a concise clarity. A major failing of the the volume is the lack of adequate maps to locate the majority of the named and innumerable places and geographical features: rivers, river forks, buttes, mountains, rocks, forts, mountain passes, river fords, trapper rendezvous, and settlements. Perusing contemporary state highway maps didn't help much. And in a work this extensive, I would have expected a large section of illustrations. Except for several very crude drawings, there were none.

What elevates WESTWARD VISION, and compels me to award four stars, is that the author makes his point magnificently, i.e. that it took many tough people with large reserves of true grit to expand the fledgling United States to the Pacific's shores. The crossing was hard:

"At the rainswept crossing of the North Platte, blue with cold, cramped by dysentery and pregnancy pangs, Mary Walker (an 1838 pilgrim) sat down and 'cried to think how comfortable my father's hogs were' (back home). As for Sarah Smith, Mary sniffed, she wept practically the entire distance to Oregon." And even recreation had a sharp edge, as at the 1832 trappers' rendezvous:

"... a few of the boys poured a kettle of alcohol over a friend and set him afire. Somehow he lived through it, and fun's fun."

Finally, Lavender eloquently suggests the reason so many embarked on the Oregon Trail at all:

"What matters is not whether fulfillment was attainable in reality (at the Trail's end), but rather that at long last in the world's sad, torn history an appreciable part of mankind thought it might be. That was both the torment and the freedom - to go and look."

Eminent.......2002-07-23

This is an excellent account of the great quest for the Northwest, which eventually culminated in the vast migrations of Americans along the Oregon Trail. From the early exploration efforts of Jacques Cartier (1530's); Jean Nicolet (1630's); Marquette and Joliet (1670's); LaSalle (1680's); Bourgmont (early 1700's); the Verendryes (1730's to 1740's); Jonathan Carver (1760's) and others too numerous to mention, we see how the English, French, Spanish and Americans all had the goal to establish roots in Oregon. When the mountain men came into the picture searching for their beaver pelts in the early 1800's, it was this breed of men that finally opened the routes across the Rocky Mountains which lead the wagon trains through to the Northwest. Lavender then takes us up to the first overland migrations (1840's) of the missionaries and others in search of a better way of life, along with all their sacrifices and perils. This is a great book and very insightful of events leading up to the Oregon Trail.

COLLECTED PLAYS VOLUME FOUR: OAK LEAVES AND LAVENDER:COCK-A-DOODLE DANDY:BEDTIME STORY:TIME TO GO.

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COLLECTED PLAYS VOLUME FOUR: OAK LEAVES AND LAVENDER:COCK-A-DOODLE DANDY:BEDTIME STORY:TIME TO GO.

Manufacturer: Macmillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000E7JNDE

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Full scripts of 4 plays, plus music and lyrics for songs from Time To Go

The Big Divide: The Lively Story of the People of the Southern Rocky Mountains from Yellowstone to Santa Fe

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Interesting

The Big Divide: The Lively Story of the People of the Southern Rocky Mountains from Yellowstone to Santa Fe
David Lavender
Manufacturer: Castle Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0785813764

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This reissue of Lavender's classic text tells the exciting story of America's bold westward expansion, man's quest for gold in the Rockies, the tragic banishment of the Native Americans and the ruinous and unchecked exploitation of some of America's richest land.

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Interesting.......2007-02-06

My husband really enjoyed getting this book. He loves all books by this author, partially because they're related. We enjoy getting the hardcover editions for keepsakes. This book is also very interesting to read.

Lavender Mansions: 40 Contemporary Lesbian and Gay Short Stories

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A Most Excellent Collection

Lavender Mansions: 40 Contemporary Lesbian and Gay Short Stories

Manufacturer: Westview Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Dyke Life: From Growing Up to Growing Old: A Celebration of the Lesbian Experience
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ASIN: 0813320313

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George Stambolian, Terri de la Pena, Audre Lorde, Paul Monette, Edmund White, and James Manrique are just six of the writers represented in this collection of contemporary lesbian and gay fiction. Zahava has compiled a unique and necessary collection, selecting stories for their artistic power and treatment of topics that are significant in lesbian and gay life and politics today.

Customer Reviews:

A Most Excellent Collection.......2006-09-29

Writing culled from published material, 1982 to 1994, has a diverse selection of stories on many topics including -

Childhood
Growing Up
Coming Out
Finding community
Families
Oppression
Resistance
Bisexuality
Relationships
Friendships
AIDS
Aging
Dying

One of my favorite authors, Lee Lynch, is a contributor so I snapped this right up.

My favorites were from -

Audre Lorde
Donna Allegra
Armistead Maupin
Terri de la Pena
Jewelle L. Gomez
Shay Youngblood
Dorothy Allison
Leslea Newman
Lee Lynch
Ruthann Robson
Judith McDaniel
Barbara Wilson
Valerie Miner
Jess Wells
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Rebecca Brown

Valerie Miner wrote an excellent introduction. I would have enjoyed a more thorough profile of contributors, especially those who I am not familiar with and perhaps a list of their other titles.

Snowbound: The Tragic Story of the Donner Party

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Great but Sad
A good American history book for students.

Snowbound: The Tragic Story of the Donner Party
David Lavender
Manufacturer: Scholastic
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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Great but Sad.......2007-02-06

This book is great, especially because we are related to the author. The story is tragic, but really interesting.

A good American history book for students........2000-04-22

Well-illustrated with black-and-white photographs, portraits, and drawings, "SNOWBOUND: The Tragic Story of the Donner Party" is a succinct, well-written summary of the misfortunes of a group of American emigrants who were trapped in the Sierra Nevada mountains during the winter of 1846-47. Lavender tells the story of survival of the desperate people straightforwardly, neither glossing over the grim facts nor candy-coating the truth. With no extraneous material, large type and big margins allow the reader to buzz quickly through the 87-page book. Although the book is directed at students ages 9-12, I feel it would hold the interest of an even wider audience; high school students reading below grade-level would find this book an easy read, without being made to feel spoon-fed. The nonfiction account follows the Donner Party from their departure from Springfield, Illinois through to the end, when the last survivors finally reached the promised land of California. Biographical information regarding many of the survivors recounts their assimilation into California society. Lavender treats the discrepant viewpoints of the many Donner Party historians of the last century and a half fairly and in a matter-of-fact way. Includes a bibliography and an index.

The Iguana in Lavender Socks (Noodlebug)

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Very Cute
great book!

The Iguana in Lavender Socks (Noodlebug)
Pam Schiller
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Join Noodlebug and friends in four delightful

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Preschoolers will “use their noodle” to discover the clever

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The Iguana in Lavender Socks

This stylish and stunning iguana and her rock band are sure to become a favorite among preschoolers! In addition to encouraging young ones to join in the dancing and clapping, this cleverly illustrated story can also be sung to the tune of “On Top of Old Smokey” for an extra dose of fun!

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Very Cute.......2007-04-13

I saw this book in the book store and had to get it just because of the title. When I read it to my son I was pleasently surprised how cute it was. At the end you find out you can sing along using the tune to "On Top of Old Smokey"...short, but very cute.

great book!.......2006-08-26

This is a brightly colored, well written book that's fun to read and sing!

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A great place to visit

The Telluride Story
David Lavender , and George H. H. Huey
Manufacturer: Wayfinder Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

A Brief History of Telluride

ASIN: 0960876464

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A great place to visit.......2000-04-13

If you're curious about Telluride, this book will go a long way toward convincing you to visit. If you've been there, you will be reminded again of its spectacular natural beauty and compelling history. The author is a native of Telluride, as well as a fine writer, so the narrative is excellent reading. The recent photographs are beautiful, and the historic ones evocative of the town's colorful past. Lavender does not shy away from the darker moments in the town's history (management-miner disputes that lead to violence) or the town's promising though problematic future as it tries to build a new economy to replace the former industrial base. The only way this book could be improved would be for it to be updated. Such recent events as the opening of a gondola connecting the town and Mountain Village are not included. Still, this book is a great introduction to one of the most beautiful places you'll ever see.

Death at Lavender Bay: An Allison O'Neil Mystery (Allison O'Neil Mysteries)

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Pleasant afternoon reading

Death at Lavender Bay: An Allison O'Neil Mystery (Allison O'Neil Mysteries)
Lauren Wright Douglas
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Pleasant afternoon reading.......2000-04-22

This book doesn't show the greatest plot or characterization skills you'll ever see, but it's a pleasantly lazy read. It has a mildly interesting if improbable plot and mildly interesting if improbable people. The protagonist is a wishy washy sort of person, but you can see flashes of interest there. There's a sort of pseudo love-interest character that ends up being more interesting than anyone else in the book -- I hope there'll be more about her in future books. It's unusual that in this book the protagonist -- a book order service person who inherits a boarding house from a possibly murdered aunt -- is not a detective herself and yet still manages to be friendly with someone who is -- the maybe future love interest. For anyone who isn't familiar with this author, both are women. Unfortunately, you could give this book to your ten year-old daughter without any fear of awkward questions. It isn't the greatest, but it's fine if you have nothing better to do, and it seems likely that the future ones will be better. I thought when I first read it that there was a spark of absurd humor here that's worth looking for in other books by this author, and I found after I read a few more that she does improve, although she still loves the really improbably situations. Still, how many books can we find that have lesbian characters that aren't villains or freaky friends that are just comic relief?

Malraux, the Absolute Agnostic; or, Metamorphosis as Universal Law

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Malraux, the Absolute Agnostic; or, Metamorphosis as Universal Law
Claude Tannery
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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Moving beyond merely biographical or textual interpretation, Claude Tannery traces the philosophy of life and art developed by André Malraux. With both sensitivity and expert interpretation he defines the issues—personal and artistic as well as political—that underlie Malraux's writings—including early as well as late works, novels, speeches, and essays. The result is a new and subtle portrait of Malraux.

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