In Her Own Sweet Time: Unexpected Adventures in Finding Love, Commitment, and Motherhood - Rilegato

Lehmann-Haupt, Rachel

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ISBN 10: 0465009190 ISBN 13: 9780465009190

Casa editrice: Basic Books, 2009

Riassunto

At 31, Rachel Lehmann-Haupt thought she had everything: the perfect boyfriend, an exciting career, and the promise of marriage and children in her future. But one year later, the relationship ended and she found herself starting over, consumed by a rapidly approaching deadline: age 35, the dividing line between a regular and a “high risk” pregnancy.

Faced with the pressure of finding true love on the edge of her fertility, Lehmann-Haupt traveled around the world and into the heart of America to explore the many new choices available to women in the twenty-first century –egg freezing, single motherhood, and instant families - as well as grapple with her own ambitions, anxieties, and personal values. A witty, poignant, and profoundly honest account of one woman’s efforts to reconcile modern love with modern life, In Her Own Sweet Time will resonate with a huge generation of young women who want it all – a career, a family, the perfect partner – but haven’t figured out yet how to fit it all together.

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Rebecca Walker, author of Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood after a Lifetime of Ambivalence
“In Her Own Sweet Time is a fun, touching, and fascinating trip through the brave new world of technologically enhanced maternity. Lehmann-Haupt hits the zeitgeist and walks women through a new set of choices—all designed to provide more options, happiness, and, ultimately, freedom. A great book for moms, moms-to-be, and women who don't want to stop living life to the fullest while they figure it all out.”

Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia
“This book offers extraordinary fresh and well-synthesized information that will be useful to doctors, therapists, women and couples who are striving to understand the complex worlds of fertility and relationships. Its author is thoughtful, honest, compassionate and funny. She reminded me of my daughter and her friends, all those Ophelias who are now in their thirties and struggling with the stormy seas of motherhood, commitment and work.”

Naomi Wolf, author of Give Me Liberty
“With In Her Own Sweet Time Rachel Lehmann-Haupt achieves something quite difficult: she confronts the issue of coming up against the biological clock and explores the field of fertility technology in a way that is readable, relatable, and engaging.”

L'autore:

Rachel Lehmann-Haupt’s writing appears regularly in the New York Times, New York, Vogue, O, Self, Outside, and Wired, among other magazines. She lives in Manhattan.

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• Editore: Basic Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0465009190
• ISBN 13: 9780465009190
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 324