Feminist Mothering

Why The World Needs to Change and How To Do It

August 26, 2011




“Don’t let them tell you it can’t be done.” Those are a few of the words written by Jack Layton, New Democratic Party leader and Canada’s Leader of the Opposition, in his letter to Canadians. Jack Layton is sadly no longer with us, but we are still here. “My friends, love is better than anger. [...]

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Quotable: Being a ‘traditional’ man can be dangerous

July 24, 2011




The featured topic in the July/August 2011 issue of New Internationalist is “The changing face of masculinity.” In the first article, “Cooking up a Storm”, author Nikki Van Der Gaag shares some interesting statistics: Being a ‘traditional’ man is risky business. A national survey of adolescent males 15 to 19 in the US found that [...]

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Motherhood Activism, Advocacy, Agency

May 12, 2011




Right now I’m in Toronto at the Motherhood Activism, Advocacy, Agency Conference organized by the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement. According to the conference description, this conference: …will examine the subject of maternal empowerment from the perspective of both scholarship and activism, drawing from and building upon Motherhood Studies research and the activism [...]

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What revolution? Why haven’t women pushed harder for caring work to be valued?

March 30, 2011




When I first got involved in blogging in the Spring of 2008 (coming up on 3 years), I started looking for other attachment parenting and feminist mothering blogs. The first feminist mothering blog that I came across and one that still holds a prominent place in my RSS reader today is blue milk. When I [...]

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Islamic Children’s Books

March 15, 2011




This is March, which for me means I am working 12 to 14 hour days. It is part of my balance over time, not every day philosophy and reality. That means that I don’t have as much time to blog, but don’t fret! I have several amazing guest bloggers lined up this month and will [...]

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Share The Important Things

February 1, 2011




We’ve been practicing our own brand of equally shared parenting since before Amy and Marc Vachon started their Equally Shared Parenting blog and wrote their Equally Shared Parenting book. While Amy and Marc’s approach emphasizes the importance of sharing every task, from earning money, to doing the laundry, to feeding the baby, our approach has [...]

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Let’s throw the assumptions out with the bathwater

November 21, 2010




I’m late to the party, I know. It is a party I didn’t want to attend. I read Erica Jong‘s essay in the Wall Street Journal on the Madness of Motherhood and I yawned. Ho hum. She isn’t saying anything that Hanna Rosin, Margaret Wente, and plenty of others haven’t already said. She sounds like [...]

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What kind of mother are you? Oppressed? Empowered? Feminist? Other?

September 17, 2010




Every once in a while I pick up my copy of Feminist Mothering (edited by Andrea O’Reilly) and read or re-read some of it. I’ve never read it cover to cover, but I read bits of it when I am reflecting on my own mothering or my own feminism. In the introduction to the book, [...]

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Pink, feminism and gender cues

September 6, 2009




When helping my children to make choices, I find myself motivated by several things. Things that often tug my reasoning in wildly different directions. Things that may make me say one thing, when I wish I’d said another. Things that make me mad at society for being so petty, so cruel, so stupid. I want [...]

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Learning and Nodding: Raising My Boychick

July 13, 2009




I read a lot of blogs. A lot of them I read so that I can get my daily head nodding exercise. Yup. I agree. You said it so well. Fabulous. Some of them I read because they write about things I don’t know much about and would like to learn more about. A few [...]

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