The Bitch in the House, Cathi Hanauer
The Bitch in the House, Cathi Hanauer
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The Bitch in the House

Author: Cathi Hanauer

Narrator: Cathi Hanauer

Abridged: 5 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 07/20/2004


Synopsis

Despite more power and choices than ever before, women are still angry -- that's not necessarily a bad thing, as anger is what continues to open the door for change. In this collection, 15 women speak boldly and passionately about choices they've made -- about sex, children, love and work -- and explore what's working and what is not. Their essays -- always provocative, honest, witty and wise -- are the culmination of the lessons of the past two decades, the ‘me' years and the therapy years, the years that have taught women to express themselves and acknowledge their needs. As celebratory as they are critical, these brilliant essays reflect the truth about life.Audio contains the following essays, written and read by the contributors:Introduction -- Cathi HanauerGetting the Milk for Free -- Veronica ChambersCrossing to Safety -- Jen MarshallMoving In. Moving Out. Moving On. -- Sarah MillerPapa Don't Preach -- Kerry HerlihyI Do. Not.: Why I Won't Marry -- Catherine NewmanKilling the Puritan Within -- Kate ChristensenMy Mother's Ring: Caught Between Two Families -- Helen SchulmanAttila the Honey I'm Home -- Kristin van OgtropThe Myth of Co-Parenting: How It Was Supposed to Be. How It Was. -- Hope EdelmanDaddy Dearest: What Happens When He Does More Than His Half? -- Laurie AbrahamCrossing the Line in the Sand: How Mad Can Mother Get? -- Elissa SchappellMarried at 46: The Agony and the Ecstacy -- Nancy WartikThe Fat Lady Sings -- Natalie KuszWhat Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude.The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge. -- Vivian Gornick

About Cathi Hanauer

Cathi Hanauer is the author of three novels—My Sister’s Bones, Sweet Ruin, and Gone—and is the editor of the New York Times bestselling essay collection The Bitch in the House. A former columnist for Glamour, Mademoiselle, and Seventeen, she has written for The New York Times, Elle, Self, Real Simple, and other magazines. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, with her husband, New York Times “Modern Love” editor Daniel Jones, and their daughter and son.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lesley on August 04, 2008

Honestly, I found it hard to sympathize with the women who contributed essays to this book. Could I identify with them? Kind of... I am a college-educated, middle-class white woman who will no doubt struggle with issues of motherhood and career. I just wish the editors had reached out to women who w......more

Goodreads review by Roxanne on March 17, 2010

Why is it that, when we come home at the end of a long day at work and our partner offers to cook dinner, we refuse and then stomp around the kitchen resentfully whipping up a fancy meal? Why do we get angrier and angrier as we wait for our partner to notice the pile of unwashed dishes instead of ju......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on January 09, 2011

When you read a book of compiled essays, it's natural to connect with some more than others. The Bitch in the House is no exception, but worthy of a read and discussion? Absolutely. Being only a female of my early twenties, I have yet to experience much of this book's content, such as marriage and ch......more

Goodreads review by Katrina on November 07, 2024

This book had good insight .......more

Goodreads review by Stasia on September 25, 2011

I wish I could give this book 2.5 stars, right in the middle. There were certainly some though-provoking essays in it, essays that I might give to other people to read if I'd come across them on their own. However, the book in its entirety is a little hard to handle. First of all, even though it's 2......more