Table of contents for Essential Hip mama : writing from the cutting edge of parenting / [edited] by Ariel Gore.

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Introduction
Part One: Nobody Said It Would Be like This
Ain't No Bowl of Cherries by Judy Smith 
"You're the Stupidest Mommy in the World, and I Hate You!" by Christine Malcolm 
Mothers Don't Fart by Laura Allen Sandage
News Flash: This Is Your Brain, This Is Your Brain Without Gravity
The Ideal Candidate to Raise My Child by Ingrid Block 
The Baby Bank by Kathy Briccetti
News Flash: Get a Grip, Mama
51 Harassment St. by Janice Wood 
Northern Mama by Sara Crangle
Ask Yo Mama: You Have Questions, She Has Answers!
Anonymous Was a Mother by Anonymous a.k.a. Marcy Sheiner
Editorial: Why Get Pregnant? 
Letters to the Editor
Part Two: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mom
The Ultimate Creative Prompt by Soo Young Lee
I Shouldn't Feel This Guilt by June Day
How I Became a Cartoonist by Katherine Arnoldi
News Flash: Ironing Boards Found to Be Obsolete
Babe in the Burbs by Wendy Suzanne 
A Case for the Countryside by Leslie Gore 
News Flash: Pop Music Good for Studies
Motoring with Mary: Molly Gove Interviews Mary Water
10 Ways to Have Fun for Under $2: Advice from the Edge by Wendy Dutton
Letters to the Editor
Part Three: Transitions
Pregnant Again by Susan Ito 
I Don't Wanna Be a Mother Anymore! by Opal Palmer Adisa
Widows I Have Known by Miriam Sagan
So You're Trying for the Girl??? by Kathryn Reiss 
News Flash: Barbie Gets a Makeover
Weaning Sucks by Keely Eastley 
The Other Day When I Was Poor by Maia Swift, age 7 
Been Around the Block by Bill Donahue 
News Flash: Grandmother of 15 Gives Birth to Triplets 
Turning by Annaliese Jakimides 
Surviving Stepmotherhood by Ann Berry
Another Train (Uncertain Destinations) by June Day
What This Mama Wants by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Letters to the Editor
Part Four: Looking for Love
Personals by Muriel Johnson
The Dating Game by Spike Gillespie 
News Flash: The Statisticians Start to Wonder
I Can't Figure Out How Passion Works: Melancholy in the Age of Recovery by Annie 
Downey
Single Moms OK by June Day
Murder of a Jumping Bean by Girl-Mom Ann-Marie Keene
News Flash: Gyration Inspector Needed
Letting Go by Yantra Bertelli
News Flash: There Oughta Be a Law . . . American Sex Laws Currently on the Books
Letters to the Editor
Part Five: The Parental Is Political
Yo Mama for President
News Flash: Right to Bear a Nose Stud
How to Raise a Draft Dodger: Leslie Gore Interviews Utah Philips
Saying No to Circumcision: How Hunter Convinced Me to Quit Performing Circumcisions 
by Dr. Barry Brown
Abortion After Motherhood by Julie Bowles 
News Flash: Just Lock 'Em Up
How the God Squad and the Right-Wingers Intend to Mess You and Your Family All Up 
by Yo Mama
I Am Your Welfare Reform by Annie Downey 
News Flash: Stats to Lie By
Moms Just Wanna Get Paid by Lucinda Marshall
Editorial: With Liberals Like These
News Flash: Ohio Judge Gets a Clue
Letters to the Editor
Part Six: Faith and Irreverence: UnVirgin Births
Road Revelations by Nanci Olesen
Hip Mama Asks: Got Faith?
News Flash: PBS Gives Voice to New Age Demons 
The Spirituality of Cleaning by Maria Doss
A Patron Saint of Housewives by Sin Derella
News Flash: Sentences that Have Actually Appeared in Church Bulletins 
Looking for Answers: The Virgin Birth by Laura Allen Sandage
A Close Encounter with Nina Hagen: Kimberly Bright Interviews Nina Hagen
News Flash: Universe Running Away with Itself
A Woman Named Mary by Nanci Olesen
Letters to the Editor
Part Seven: Lineage
Mama Said: The Best and Worst Advice We Ever Got from Our Mothers
More than Plastic Sushi by Susan Ito 
Hip Mama Asks: What's Your Lineage?
News Flash: People Came from Nowhere
How to Make Ariel's Childhood Thanksgiving Dinner by Eve DeBona
Grandma Is Old and Has White Hair by Geraldo Valério
How Did You Find Me? by Shelly Lovell
363 Days a Mother by Fern Capella
Illustration Credits
Yo Mama's Horrorscope: It's in the Stars!
 

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Mothers -- United States.
Motherhood -- United States.
Parenting -- United States.