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Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict Paperback - 2009 - 1st Edition
by Irene Vilar
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Irene Vilar was just a pliant young college undergraduate in thrall to her professor when they embarked on a relationship that led to marriage--a union of impossible odds--and fifteen abortions in fifteen years. Vilar knows that she is destined to be misunderstood, that many will see her nightmare as an instance of abusing a right, of using abortion as a means of birth control. But it isn't that. The real story is part of an awful secret, shrouded in shame, colonialism, self-mutilation, and a family legacy that features a heroic grandmother, a suicidal mother, and two heroin-addicted brothers. It is a story that looks back on her traumatic childhood growing up in the shadow of her mother's death and the footsteps of her famed grandmother, the political activist Lolita Lebron, and a history that touches on American exploitation and reproductive repression in Puerto Rico. Vilar seamlessly weaves together past, present, and future, channeling a narrative that is at once dramatic and subtle.Impossible Motherhood is a heartrending and ultimately triumphant testimonial told by a writer looking back on her history of addiction. Abortion has never offered any honest person easy answers. Vilar's dark journey through self-inflicted wounds, compulsive patterns, and historical hauntings is a powerful story of loss and mourning that bravely delves into selfhood, national identity, reproductive freedom, family responsibility, and finally motherhood itself--today, Vilar is the mother of two beautiful children.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Title Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict
- Author Irene Vilar
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 222
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Other Press (NY)
- Date 2009-10-06
- ISBN 9781590513200 / 1590513207
- Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 8.54 x 6.28 x 0.76 in (21.69 x 15.95 x 1.93 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Compulsive behavior, Abortion - Psychological aspects
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009012880
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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