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Author Harper, Lisa Catherine, 1966-

Title A double life : discovering motherhood / Lisa Catherine Harper
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages)
Series River teeth literary nonfiction prize
River teeth literary nonfiction prize (Series)
Contents Inside. Conception ; Expecting ; Something from nothing ; Signs and symptoms ; Tested ; Public life ; Pas de deux ; My phantom self ; Song of the self ; The mind-body problem ; The lives and deaths of mothers ; Room for one's own ; Last days -- Inside/Out -- Outside. The fourth trimester ; Hatching ; Sea change ; In the dark ; Out of the body ; An American woman's home ; Flying home
Summary Motherhood splits a woman's life forever, into a before and an after. Harper brings her sense of humor as she explores the emotional and biological transformations that motherhood entails, and documents her own journey across this great divide
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Harper, Lisa Catherine, 1966-
SUBJECT Harper, Lisa Catherine, 1966- fast
Subject Mothers -- United States -- Biography
Motherhood.
maternity.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Parenting -- Motherhood.
Motherhood
Mothers
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780803235458
0803235453
1283051214
9781283051217