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The art of keeping up
Since the beginning of this year, I've struggled to satisfy a multitude of conflicting obligations without letting go of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change the direction of my country by working to elect a transformative leader. To readers and contributing writers who've been waiting to see fresh content published on the MMO: my sincerest apologies. |
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Mothers on the tenure track
"Another interesting and troubling finding is that even full professors with tenure had horrifying stories to tell. One would hope that with such power and security, this would exempt you from mother discrimination, but it doesn't." A conversation with Caroline Grant, Elrena Evans, and Andrea O'Reilly about motherhood and the clockwork of academic careers.
Interview by Heather Hewett
Power in a movement
Enough talk, already. It's time for the mothers' movement to get organized -- or risk missing our window of opportunity.
By Judith Stadtman Tucker
Immigration is a mother's issue
The story of immigration, and the policy debates now circling around the topic are strikingly gendered, and ignore the reality of mothers and their children. So too do the writings and public conversations on motherhood often exclude the stories of immigrant mothers.
By Gretchen Hunt
One city. One blog. A whole lotta mamas.
The Activistas are ready for the revolution. Our goal? Nothing less than electing supportive legislators, improving laws and forcing better private-sector policies that affect families in Oregon and beyond.
By Lisa Frack
Solving the flexibility puzzle
Flexibility is essential for the success of all the purposeful things we do, yet few communities, or companies, or even households are organized to provide working mothers with all the flexibility they need.
By Arthur Emlen
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| Random
dispatches on motherhood, culture and politics
by MMO editor Judith Stadtman Tucker
The writing on the wall
The explosion of excellent media coverage on women and work-life issues,
and what it means for the mothers' movement
The builders of new myths
Friedan, feminism and the future
The task before us now is to decide what we wish to be free from, and how that liberty can best be achieved.
Motherhood
made me do it!
Or, how I became an activist
Before I became a mother, I wasn't much of an activist,
or even much of a feminist.
The
New Future of Motherhood
Mothers don’t “choose” their way into the motherhood
problem, and we can’t choose our way out of it. So where
do we go from here?
more
in the motherhood
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MILF:
Is the "hot moms movement" a sign of progress?
At first glance, the MILF phenomenon seems pretty liberating. But is it possible that the hot mom craze is just another way to make women who are not "hot," or don't feel "hot," feel lousy about it?
By Kathleen Furin
Anniversary
Suddenly every act seemed, potentially, to be the last time such an act would be carried out; every conversation, perhaps the last conversation. America was under siege; we were no longer immune, nested here between the oceans. We had been called to task: the next phase of history had begun.
By Jampa Williams
Unforgettable
I try to explain to people why I only want one child. I start to discuss what a traumatic childbirth entails, what postpartum depression is and what it can do to a family. Even the most sympathetic shoulder usually ends up telling me that I will forget the pain and the fear will go away.
By Carter-Ann Mahdavi
Knock me out!
When I handed my two page birth plan to the nurse, she almost looked amused. She knew what I didn't, that the only thing that ever goes "according to plan" during childbirth is that a baby is coming, and that it hurts like hell.
By Laura Owens
Craggy dancing
Life in a female body involves surrender to years of biophysical processes over which we have little or no personal control. Now, just as my three daughters become ripely adolescent, I am hitting my own hormonal stride. Or is that slide...? Yeah, definitely sliding.
By Dina Stander
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Through the looking glass
By Megan Beyer
I look like Hillary Clinton.
Governor Schwarzenegger vetoes families
By Kristin Maschka
Governor Schwarzenegger, as your boss, we'll be glad to let you use a day of leave to take care of your kids. As long as you make sure the rest of us can do the same.
Family politics:
How Democrats can reclaim family values
By Erica Etelson
Thanks to the emergence of a progressive parenthood movement, the one set of issues that could make or break any presidential bid is family policy.
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books
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| Choice, in all its complexity
Choice:
True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood and Abortion
Karen E. Bender and Nina de Gramont, Editors
Review by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser
How the personal became political
Sisterhood, Interrupted:
From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild
By Deborah Siegel
Review by Judith Stadtman Tucker
Reality check
Opting Out?
Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home
By Pamela Stone
Review by Deborah Siegel
The disappeared
The Girls Who Went Away:
The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
By Ann Fessler
Review by Carolyn McConnell
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Takes
Short reviews of recent and older works of note.
Currently
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"When Mothers Work:
Loving Our Children Without Sacrificing Our Selves"
By Joan K. Peters
The
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Essential reading for mothers who think about social change
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Motherhood
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