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2) Navigating the Shock of Parenthood: Warty Truths and Modern Practicalities - from a mom with twins
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New to parenting? A bit overwhelmed by the intensity of it all? Well, you are not alone! The transition to parenthood is big. Really big. In Navigating the Shock of Parenthood, you'll find the secrets of parenthood revealed. You'll also find perspective, humor, insight, and a whole bunch of wisdom from both experts and experienced parents.
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“Mothers of the Military” examines the distinctive kinds of support required during an increasingly privatized war, specifically material, moral and healthcare support. Mothers are a particularly key part of the current support system for service members, and Wendy Christensen follows the mothers of U.S. service members in the War on Terrorism through the stages of recruitment, deployment, and post-deployment. Bringing to light the experiences...
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"Shannon Watts was a stay-at-home mom folding laundry when news of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary flashed across the television screen. Heartbroken and fed up, Watts decided to do something about it. [This book] is a riveting account of how one mother's cry for change grew into a national movement, Moms Demand Action, a powerful grassroots network with millions of supporters and local chapters in all fifty states. Watts has been called...
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Raising a daughter is hard. Raising a conservative daughter can feel downright impossible. As someone who has spent over a quarter-century preparing thousands of conservative girls and women for effective conservative leadership, Michelle Easton knows the daunting challenges parents face. Toxic social media, radical feminist indoctrination in schools, corrosive messages from Hollywood and the entertainment world--the dizzying array of cultural forces...
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China Martens started her pioneering mamazine The Future Generation in 1990. She was a young anarchist punk rock mother, who didn't feel that the mamas in her community had enough support, so she began publishing articles on radical parenting in an age before the internet.
The anthology of her zine, The Future Generation: The Zine-Book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends & Others, was first printed in 2007 and has been out of print for many years....
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Those who hold the strongest and longest lasting power in the world are those who command the minds of new people-in short, mothers. In The Invincible Family, Kimberly Ells shows that radical progressive forces have been trying to corode the inherent and unbreakable relationship between mother and child and in doing so have unseated women from their position of power at the heart of civilization. The United Nations has been coopted as a key tool for...
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A mother recounts her interactions with the US government as she struggled to bring home her abducted daughters from Saudi Arabia.
Patricia Roush's girls were kidnapped more than 16 years ago and taken by their Saudi father, who they hardly knew, to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They were three and seven at the time. At Any Price is the story of her fight to get them back from a father with a documented history of severe mental illnesses...
Patricia Roush's girls were kidnapped more than 16 years ago and taken by their Saudi father, who they hardly knew, to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They were three and seven at the time. At Any Price is the story of her fight to get them back from a father with a documented history of severe mental illnesses...
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Jackie Krasas traces the trajectories of mothers who have lost or ceded custody to an ex-partner. She argues that these noncustodial mothers' experiences should be understood within a greater web of gendered social institutions such as employment, education, health care, and legal systems that shapes the meanings of contemporary motherhood in the United States. If motherhood means "being there," then noncustodial mothers, through their absence, are...
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The must-read summary of Joan Blades and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner's book: "The Motherhood Manifesto: What America's Moms Want — and What To Do About It".
This complete summary of "The Motherhood Manifesto" presents the authors' argument that, despite the fact that motherhood is the most important challenging job in the world, American society has not caught up to support the diversity of roles modern women take in daily life. They suggest six main...
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In This Is How We Survive: Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st-Century, Mai'a Williams shares her experiences working in conflict zones and with liberatory resistance communities as a journalist, human rights worker, and midwife in Palestine, Egypt, Chiapas, Berlin, and the U.S., while mothering her young daughter Aza.
She first went to Palestine in 2003 during the Second Intifada to support Palestinians resisting the Israeli occupation....
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