A Mother's Place

Taking the Debate About Working Mothers Beyond Guilt and Blame

Author: Susan Chira
ISBN: 9780060173272

Mothers all across America are caught in a maelstrom of guilt and anxiety, torn between their devotion to their children and their fears about economic security. A Mother's Place  , written by a leading New York Times   journalist and mother of two, is the book they have been waiting to read -- one that exposes the backlash against working mothers in our culture yet acknowledges their own ambivalence about the new lives they are leading. Evolving from a series of front-page articles Susan Chira wrote for the New York Times , A Mother's Place   leads all mothers to safe ground. Drawing on her own experience as a mother and worker, and on interviews with dozens of mothers across the country, Chira writes with passion and compassion about motherhood in the nineties. A Mother's Place   is at once a devestating expose of the distortions that have wrongfully convinced many women that good mothers stay at home, and an engaging personal account of how women can rewrite the rules of motherh

Publisher: HarperCollins
Publish Date: 1998-04-15

Subjects: Family & Relationships / Parenting / Motherhood, Psychology / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Parenting)