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The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change

10 best books like The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change (Shari MacDonald Strong): Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood, Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood, The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women, Jailed for Freedom: American Women Win the Vote, Women and Authority: Re-Emerging Mormon Feminism, Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life, Adventures in Gentle Discipline: A Parent-to-Parent Guide (La Leche League International Book), Love Works Like This: Moving from One Kind of Life to Another, My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities, First Person Queer: Who We Are

Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood
AuthorTomas Moniz
ISBN1604864818
Combining the best of the award-winning magazine Rad Dad and the Daddy Dialectic blog, this compilation features the best essays written for fathers by a multitude of dads from different walks of life. Bestselling authors, writers, musicians, and others collaborate on this collection that focuses...
Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood
AuthorNaomi Wolf
ISBN0385497458
In The Beauty Myth the fearless Naomi Wolf revolutionized the way we think about beauty. In Misconceptions, she demythologizes motherhood and reveals the dangers of common assumptions about childbirth. With uncompromising honesty she describes how hormones eroded her sense of independence,...
The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women
AuthorSusan J. Douglas
ISBN0743260465
Taking readers on a provocative tour through thirty years of media images about mothers -- the superficial achievements of celebrity moms, the sensational coverage of dangerous day care, the media-manufactured "mommy wars" between working mothers and stay-at-home moms, and more -- The Mommy Myth...
Jailed for Freedom: American Women Win the Vote
AuthorDoris Stevens
ISBN0939165252
A firsthand account of the National Woman’s Party, which organized and fought a fierce battle for passage of the 19th Amendment. The suffragists endured hunger strikes, forced feedings, and jail terms. First written in 1920 by Doris Stevens, this version was edited by Carol O’Hare. Includes...
Women and Authority: Re-Emerging Mormon Feminism
AuthorMaxine Hanks
ISBN1560850140
Utah women today might be surprised to learn their grandmothers' views on feminist issues, according to Maxine Hanks. LDS Relief Society co-founder Sarah Kimball referred to herself as "a woman's rights woman, " while Bathsheba Smith was called on Relief Society mission in 1870 to preach equal rights...
Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life
AuthorSamhita Mukhopadhyay
ISBN1580053327
Romance and love are in a state of crisis: Statistically speaking, young women today are living romantic lives of all kinds--but they're still feeling bogged down by social, cultural, economic, and familial pressures to love in a certain way. Young women in the modern world have greater flexibility...
Adventures in Gentle Discipline: A Parent-to-Parent Guide (La Leche League International Book)
AuthorHilary Flower
ISBN0976896907
In Hilary Flower’'s second book, ADVENTURES IN GENTLE DISCIPLINE, she allows the reader to explore goals of gentle discipline, rewards for both child and parent, and what it looks like in action. Hilary debunks myths about the effectiveness of gentle discipline methods while empowering parents...
Love Works Like This: Moving from One Kind of Life to Another
AuthorLauren Slater
ISBN0375503765
“Is even the most clenched heart capable of it?” Lauren Slater asks about love, in this original, eloquent, and illuminating book about how we discover what love truly is. Slater, career-oriented and willfully autonomous, charts her own personal journey and decision-making process, starting...
My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities
AuthorYantra Bertelli
ISBN1604861096
The stories in this collection provide parents of special needs kids with a dose of both laughter and reality. Featuring works by so-called alternative parents who have attempted to move away from mainstream thought, this anthology carefully considers the implications of raising children with...
First Person Queer: Who We Are
AuthorRichard Labonté
ISBN1551522276
In this amazing, wide-ranging anthology of nonfiction essays, contributors write intimate and honest first-person accounts of queer experience, from coming out to “passing” as straight to growing old to living proud. These are the stories of contemporary gay and lesbian life—and by definition,...
It's a Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters
AuthorAndrea J. Buchanan
ISBN1580051472
The most popular question any pregnant woman is asked — aside from "When are you due?" — has got to be "Are you having a girl or a boy?" When author Andrea Buchanan was pregnant with her daughter, she was thrilled to be expecting a girl. Some people were happy for her; visions of flouncy pink dresses and...
Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself
AuthorAmy Richards
ISBN0374226725
For contemporary women, motherhood has become as polarizing a proposition as it is a powerful calling. For some women this tension is manifest in a debate over whether or not to have children. For others it concerns whether to stay at home with their children or stay in the workforce. Still others feel...
We Don't Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists
AuthorMelody Berger
ISBN1580051820
We Don’t Need Another Wave is a critique of the ways in which feminism is discussed in the mainstream media. Today’s young feminists are wary of being labeled. They are media-savvy, hyper-aware of being categorized and marginalized, and are here to tell the world that feminists are feminists —...
Little Big Minds: Sharing Philosophy with Kids
AuthorMarietta McCarty
A guide for parents and educators to sharing the enduring ideas of the biggest minds throughout the centuries—from Plato to Jane Addams—with the "littlest" minds.

Children are no strangers to cruelty and courage, to love and to loss, and in this unique book teacher and educational consultant...
Entwined: Sisters and Secrets in the Silent World of Artist Judith Scott
AuthorJoyce Scott
ISBN0807051403
The remarkable story of “outsider” artist Judith Scott, who was institutionalized for more than thirty years before being rescued by her sister

Judith Scott was born with Down syndrome in 1943 in Columbus, Ohio, during a time when such children were often shipped away. But, Judy wasn’t...
Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood
AuthorCherríe L. Moraga
ISBN1563410923
Cherrie Moraga, the celebrated Chicana lesbian writer, has crafted a jewel of a book in Waiting In The Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood. This is the story of "one small human being's struggle for survival", the author's two-and-one-half pound premature baby boy.While the specifics belong to...
Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room
AuthorMerle Hoffman
ISBN1558617513
Merle Hoffman's life story is riveting. A former classical pianist, a self-made millionaire, and a feminist who found her life's work providing abortions, she has been a fearless crusader for women's right to choose. Over the years, Hoffman has used her entrepreneurial spirit to build one of the most...
Same Difference: How Gender Myths Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs
AuthorRosalind C. Barnett
ISBN0465006132
From respected academics like Carol Gilligan to pop-psych gurus like John Gray, and even the controversial Harvard President Lawrence Summers, the message has long been the same: Men and women are fundamentally different, and trying to bridge the gender gap can only lead to grief. But as the New York...
One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk About Polyamory, Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love
AuthorRebecca Walker
ISBN1594488622
An illuminating, entertaining, and provocative immersion in today’s American family, with essays from ZZ Packer, Dan Savage, Min Jin Lee, asha bandele, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, and others, illustrating the changing realities of domestic life.

Edited by bestselling author Rebecca...
Fundraising for Social Change
AuthorKim Klein
ISBN0787984558
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From Housewife to Heretic
AuthorSonia Johnson
ISBN1877617016
Forgive the length of this review; I have a lot to say about “Feminism.” I started reading classic feminist literature in my teens (Susan Fauldi, Germaine Greer, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill, Betty Friedan, Naomi Wolf, Gloria Steinem, Simone De Beauvoir, Kate Chopin, Henrik Ibsen,...
Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time
AuthorKatha Pollitt
“As this book, which is greater than the sum of its brilliant parts makes clear, Katha Pollitt, who is famously a feminist, is also a humorist, a moralist and a most hilarious, wise, and incisive observer.”
–Victor Navasky, author of A Matter of Opinion

Through presidential administrations...
33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women's History: From Suffragettes to Skirt Lengths to the E.R.A
AuthorTonya Bolden
ISBN0375811222
Here’s the perfect book for anyone interested in learning more about girls and women in the United States from the 18th century to the present. Featuring contributions from a wide variety of women, including well-known nonfiction writers, a children’s librarian, historians, and many more,...
The Year My Son and I Were Born: A Story of Down Syndrome, Motherhood, and Self-Discovery
AuthorKathryn Lynard Soper
ISBN0762750618
I was so moved by this open, honest and true account of a mother who gives birth to her 7th child--her son Thomas who is borne with an extra chromosome, a down syndrome baby. With six other children, a busy husband, and predisposed notions about disabilities, this mother shares her journey to accept this...
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