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feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... at the intersections of race and class. She regularly blogs at The Bilerico Project . The title of Irene Vilar’s new memoir, Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict , is a bit misleading. Although Vilar chronicles 15 abortions over 15 years, “addiction” as a diagnostic category is only hastily grafted onto her tale of existential angst. Cynical readers will wonder...
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bilerico.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The title of Irene Vilar's new memoir, Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict , is a bit misleading. Although Vilar chronicles 15 abortions over 15 years, "addiction" as a diagnostic category is only hastily grafted onto her tale of existential angst. Cynical readers will wonder whether the packaging of this story as "abortion addiction" originated...
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feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
The book is traumatic with a capital, bold T . At one part about 1/3 of the way thru, I threw the book down in disgust and decided I was done. You are warned. Impossible Motherhood by Irene Vilar has received a lot of press and been a topic of debate on many a listserv due to the subtitle "Testimony of an Abortion Addict." When I first found out about this book my first thought...
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FREEDOM EDEN (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Irene Vilar is telling her story, Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict . From the Washington Post : The two little impossibilities want Mami's attention. Loretta, a self-assured and quietly focused 5-year-old, hides squiggly line drawings under the furniture at a relative's home in Alexandria. Lolita, a high-spirited 3-year-old, sways to Beethoven's "Für Elise."...
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The two little impossibilities want Mami's attention.
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Powell's Books: Overview (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict by Irene Vilar, a review from The Oregonian by Cheryl Strayed.
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Immediately after reading Irene Vilar's memoir, Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict, I closed the book and went to my bedroom to take an...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... because I ask myself why I do what I do like, every other day. And also because I just reviewed Irene Vilar's gorgeous memoir: Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict for Book Forum, and am stumbling through Marya Hornbacher's Madness and trying not to lose my mind. Memoir. Love it, hate it? What has it done for you lately? I started writing this for a talk I gave at...
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MSNBC.com: Today (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
In “Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict,” editor and literary agent Irene Vilar shares her controversial story of having had 15 abortions in 15 years. Here, she talks to TODAY Moms about why she had so many abortions and how motherhood eventually saved her.
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... did in Friday’s Post. In paragraph 44 of their profile of "abortion addict" Irene Vilar, the pro-life movement finally gets to speak – as a hateful cartoon. Lately, he [her husband] has tried to shield her from "violent, hateful and utterly un-Christian comments" on blogs, he says. On the Internet, she has been called a "monster," "scuzzy,"...
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Bossip (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Meet Irene Vilar. She is addicted to abortions. You will not believe how many she has had. It is in the teens: Irene Vilar worries that her self-described “abortion addiction” will be misunderstood, twisted by the pro-life movement to deny women the right to choose. Her book, “Impossible Motherhood,” chronicles her own dark choices of [...]
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E.G RADIO ONLINE (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... leave me your comments and thoughts on this story...as always your comments are appreciated. Meet Irene Vilar. She is addicted to abortions. You will not believe how many she has had. It is in the teens: Irene Vilar worries that her self-described “abortion addiction” will be misunderstood, twisted by the pro-life movement to deny women the right to choose....
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ShoutWire.com (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Irene Vilar he mother of two but has recently written a tell all book entitled Impossible Motherhood, in which she reveals having had 15 abortions. She has written about a very troubled background which includes addiction. Do we understand her life through the lens of women's’ reproductive choice or do we look at this as a mental health issue and can the two even be divorced from...
