A review by asimoni
Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence by Rebecca Walker

3.0

I would have liked this book more if there was less about the copious amounts of food Rebecca Walker consumed while pregnant and the seeming perfection of the father of her baby. At times I also felt like an uncomfortable voyeur on the tense dynamics between mother - Alice Walker - and daughter. All that aside, she offers interesting and thought-provoking insights into why it is that so many of us (20-30 something women) feel ambivalence (or fear) of motherhood. And she questions the empowerment that feminism has engendered - suggesting that today it manifests as troubling alienation from ourselves and from others. In sum, this book is worth the read.