Ebook: The bitch in the house: 26 women tell the truth about sex, solitude, work, motherhood, and marriage
Author: Gilchrist Ellen, Hanauer Cathi
- Tags: Interpersonal relations, Interpersonal relations--United States, Women--Social conditions, Women--United States--Social conditions, Case studies, Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- Case studies, Interpersonal relations -- United States -- Case studies, Women -- Social conditions, United States
- Year: 2003
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- City: New York;United States
- Edition: 1st ed
- Language: English
- epub
Virginia Woolf introduced us to the "Angel in the House", now prepare to meet... The Bitch In the House.
Women today have more choices than at any time in history, yet many smart, ambitious, contemporary women are finding themselves angry, dissatisfied, stressed out. Why are they dissatisfied? And what do they really want? These questions form the premise of this passionate, provocative, funny, searingly honest collection of original essays in which twenty-six women writers--ranging in age from twenty-four to sixty-five, single and childless or married with children or four times divorced--invite readers into their lives, minds, and bedrooms to talk about the choices they've made, what's working, and what's not.
With wit and humor, in prose as poetic and powerful as it is blunt and dead-on, these intriguing women offer details of their lives that they've never publicly revealed before, candidly sounding off on:
• The difficult decisions and...