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  • The Motherhood Business

    Consumption, Communication, and Privilege

    by Jennifer L. Borda, Kara N. Dillard, K. Animashaun Ducre, Lisa A. Flores, Christine Harold, Karen Hvidtfeldt Madsen, Dr. Charlotte H. Kroløkke, Dr. Shira Chess0, Dr. Anne Teresa Demo1, Cynthia Gordon2, Sara E. Hayden3 ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    The Motherhood Business is a piercing collection of ten original essays that reveal the rhetoric of the motherhood industry. Focusing on the consumer life of mothers and the emerging entrepreneurship associated with motherhood, the collection considers how different forms of privilege (class, race, and nationality) inform discourses about mothering, consumption, mobility, and leisure.The ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

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    by Sarah Taylor ...
    When Sarah Taylor suspected that her four-year-old daughter, Nadia, had been kidnapped by Fawzi, her abusive ex-husband, Sarah's whole world was turned upside down. Shadowy CCTV from the airport showed Nadia boarding a flight with her father to Tripoli - and Sarah's worst fears were confirmed. No child abducted to Libya had ever been successfully returned to their mother in England; but Sarah was ... Read more

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  • Drop the Ball

    Achieving More by Doing Less

    by Tiffany Dufu ...
    Tiffany Dufu's Drop the Ball is a bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women's leadership movement that shows women how to cultivate the single skill they really need in order to thrive: the ability to let go.Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child, Tiffany Dufu struggled to accomplish everything she thought she needed to in order to ... Read more

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  • Perfect Madness

    Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety

    by Judith Warner ...
    A lively and provocative look at the modern culture of motherhood and at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped current ideas about parentingWhat is wrong with this picture? 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.When ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Regretting Motherhood

    A Study

    by Orna Donath ...
    A provocative and deeply important study of women’s lives, women’s choices—and an ‘unspoken taboo’—that questions the societal pressures forcing women into motherhoodWomen who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in life, yet we rarely talk about the possibility that the opposite might also be true—that women who have children might regret it. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • On Becoming Childwise: Parenting Your Child from 3-7 Years

    by Gary Ezzo, Robert Bucknam ...
    Series series On Becoming
    As a child moves beyond the toddler years, and into kindergarten and primary school, new challenges arise for parents. Be prepared for this exciting stage with fifteen "Childwise" principles for training children ages 3-7 in happy and responsible living. Childwise is a key member of the bestselling "On Becoming" parenting series by authors Gary Ezzo and Robert Bucknam, whose various editions have ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice

    How Women are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family

    by Rosanna Hertz ...
    A remarkable number of women today are taking the daunting step of having children outside of marriage. In Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice, Rosanna Hertz offers the first full-scale account of this fast-growing phenomenon, revealing why these middle class women took this unorthodox path and how they have managed to make single parenthood work for them. Hertz interviewed 65 women--ranging from ... Read more

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  • Quarterly Essay 29 Love and Money

    The Family and the Free Market

    by Anne Manne ...
    Series Book 29 - Quarterly Essay
    In Love and Money, Anne Manne looks at the religion of work – its high priests and sacrificial lambs. As family life and motherhood feel the pressure of the market, she asks whether the chief beneficiaries are self-interested employers and child-care corporations.This is an essay that ranges widely and entertainingly across contemporary culture: it casts an inquisitive eye over the modern marriage ... Read more

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  • Sleep Deprived No More

    From Pregnancy to Early Motherhood-Helping You and Your Baby Sleep Through the Night

    by Jodi A. Mindell ...
    Although there are many books on getting baby to sleep, Sleep Deprived No More focuses on someone else who isn't getting any rest -- the mom! Organized trimester by trimester both during and after pregnancy, this guide is straightforward, accessibly written, and easy to navigate so moms can quickly get the help -- and rest -- they need. Covers sleep conditions common to pregnancy and afterward: In ... Read more

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  • Mothers Who Think

    Tales of Real-Life Parenthood

    by Kate Moses, Lori Leibovich ...
    From the editors of the cutting-edge online magazine Salon come provocative essays that take an unflinching look atthe gritty truths and unreserved pleasures of contemporary motherhood.Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood, which grew out of Salon's popular daily department of the same name, comprises nearly forty essays by writers grappling with the new and compelling ideas that ... Read more

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  • Raising America

    Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children

    by Ann Hulbert ...
    Since the beginning of the twentieth century, millions of anxious parents have turned to child-rearing manuals for reassurance. Instead, however, they have often found yet more cause for worry. In this rich social history, Ann Hulbert analyzes one hundred years of shifting trends in advice and discovers an ongoing battle between two main approaches: a “child-centered” focus on warmly encouraging ... Read more

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  • The War of the Sexes

    How Conflict and Cooperation Have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present

    by Paul Seabright ...
    How our stone-age brains made modern society, and why it matters for relationships between men and womenAs countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conflict. Yet we belong to the most cooperative species on the planet. Isn't there a way we can use this capacity to achieve greater harmony and equality ... Read more

    $19.49 USD