Challenges idealized concepts about motherhood that the author believes compromise women's rights and empowerment without benefiting children, citing such factors as unrealistic parenting standards, media scare tactics, Reprint. 500,000 first printing.
" This collection of essays takes a realistic look at motherhood and provides a platform for real voices and raw stories, each adding to the narrative of motherhood we don't tend to see in the headlines or on the news.
A groundbreaking examination of the historical myth of motherhood looks at how different cultures have viewed motherhood, showing how our current idea of the "good mother" reflects a reaction to burgeoning women's rights. 25,000 first ...
Any mother who has ever doubted herself will resonate with Carla's words."-Cindy Crosby, author of By Willoway Brook: Exploring the Landscape of Prayer "Courageous. Important. Challenging. Open this book and read.
This mini-book delves deep into the Bible, dismantling the myths that keep women enslaved to false expectations, and freeing them to focus on the one thing needful: being a disciple of Jesus.
In 2002, Rosalind Wiseman's Queen Bees and Wannabes and Rachel Simmons's Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls both became bestsellers. Wiseman, who had already begun doing workshops at schools around the country to ...
When it was finally published, the essay went viral, shared on social media by Anne Lamott, Rebecca Solnit, and many others. This gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers a candid look at our relationships with our mothers.
That's the question Judith Warner asks in this national bestseller after taking a good, hard look at the world of modern parenting--at anxious women at work and at home and in bed with unhappy husbands.
A humorous description of motherhood.
Your obstetrician will cautiously quote statistics; online sources will scare you with conflicting and often inaccurate data; and even the most trusted books will offer information with a heavy dose of judgment.
It changed the nature of the home: Meyers, Rediscovering Eve, 52, 121; Elinor Accampo, Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, ...