Comments on: An organic cotton layette of one’s own? (Srsly?)

By: Dr. Koshary

Dr. Koshary — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:20:10 +0000

I have nothing to add but admiration. I’m laughing in horror at this entire thread. Part of the horror comes, I think, because I can actually envision some ignorant hipster becoming vaguely aware of Toni Morrison and opening a maternity store called Beloved. It may only be a matter of time.

By: Michele

Michele — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:53:22 +0000

“A Womb of One’s Own”? Ugh.

I once stood for a moment, eyes and mouth wide in disbelief, outside a maternity shop in Ireland called “Mum’s the Word”. And then I had to move out of the way for a big-bellied lady in a trenchcoat and dark glasses who was trying to enter it.

By: wini

wini — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:22:51 +0000

A toy store for when your baby becomes a toddler: “A Doll’s House.”

By: Comrade PhysioProf

Comrade PhysioProf — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:53:34 +0000

Dollars to donuts the NY Times has a 51% ownership stake in the store.

By: A

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:28:49 +0000

Nearby, a spa, The Awakening. “The children are at piano lessons and soccer practice. Hubby has a meeting that will run late. Now it’s time for you…”

Behind the cash register, a massive photo of a serene woman floating in clear, blue waters (think of the Blue Lagoon, Iceland or something off the Florida Keys).

(Six for Kate Chopin, btw!).

By: Sisyphus

Sisyphus — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:17:47 +0000

Oh, you people! What about Felicia Hemans? Anne Bradstreet? (Too bad Aphra Behn didn’t have children bc then the shop could be all smutty.)

You could call the shop The Burning Deck and have comparative versions of Hemans’s and Bishop’s “Casabianca.”

By: Dame Eleanor Hull

Dame Eleanor Hull — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:47:44 +0000

Fanny Burney had a child. Hester Thrale Piozzi had several. Dorothy Sayers had an illegitimate one, if we’re getting into the 20th century.

By: Wednesday Link Love « The Feminist Texican

Wednesday Link Love « The Feminist Texican — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:45:18 +0000

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By: Bardiac

Bardiac — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:34:38 +0000

You folks totally crack me up. I have no suggestions, but if someone opens the cooking store, we need a Titus Andronicus pastie cookbook.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:15:43 +0000

Well, George Eliot didn’t have children either, but I can’t think of a clever store using her names. On the other hand, I’d totally shop at Cranford, or Wives and Daughters