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Mid-Century Moderns and Our Mishegas* with Takes from the Twenty-First *Madness: A Look at the Way We Were vs How Today's Moderns Live
Ellen Zelda Kessner
Paperback. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2011-07-26.
ISBN 9781460935828
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Publisher description
A (mostly) light-hearted "sociological study" of decades-old dilemmas about American lifestyles and how we resolved them. Or not. In the manner of Nora Ephron, Ellen Zelda Kessner shares, with humor and insight, her reflections and those of contributors Judi Culbertson and Sally Wendkos Olds, on COME-AND-GO FASHIONS in: Natural Childbirth; Teaching While Pregnant; Breastfeeding Babies; Eclectic Home Decorating; Girl Scout Cookies; Stay-at-Home Mommying; Having Kittens; Female Orgasms; Diversifying the Suburbs. In MID-CENTURY MODERNS & OUR MISHEGAS (MADNESS), Kessner also relates her often-hilarious adventures with TRY-ON CAREERS & PASTIMES: Selling Real Estate; Substitute Teaching; Writing Faux-True Confessions; Acting in Little Theatre; Writing PTA Plays; Founding a Feminist Family Theatre. Enjoy samplings of Mid-Century Madness--- and what follows---in chapters like: I WAS A NATURAL CHILDBIRTH DROP-OUT; TO BREAST FEED? OR DO THE NATURAL THING-GIVE THE BABY A BOTTLE?; WHAT DO WOMEN WANT? THE GREAT ORGASM KERFUFFLE; PERILS OF A REAL ESTATE PUSHER; GUILTY SECRETS-THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF A TRUE CONFESSIONS WRITER; Plus the thought -provoking "Look who's coming to live next door to you?" story, "SPLIT FOR SALE, DESIRABLE NEIGHBORHOOD. .
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Mid-Century Moderns and Our Mishegas* with Takes from the Twenty-First *Madness: A Look at the Way We Were vs How Today's Moderns Live
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