Author: Norma J. Bumgarner
Publisher: La Leche League International
Keywords: toddler, nursing, mothering
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 2000-02-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0912500522
ISBN-13: 9780912500522

The classic handbook for mothers who breastfeed their children past infancy in an updated expanded edition. Norma Jane Bumgarner puts the experience of nursing an older baby or child in perspective, within the context of the entire mother-child relationship. She cites biological, cultural, and historical evidence in support of extended breastfeeding and shares stories gleaned from thousands of families for whom breastfeeding and natural weaning have been the norm.

Author: Denise Roy
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: grace, compassion, mindfulness, mothering, momfulness
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-02-26
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0787981974
ISBN-13: 9780787981976

Denise Roy combines the hard-won wisdom of a parent with the insights of meditation to create a spiritual practice that goes to the heart of everyday life: mothering with mindfulness. Through anecdotes, reflections, and specific practices, this book invites mothers to wake up and embrace their lives, discovering that they are always standing on holy ground.

Author: Meg Federico
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: mothering, mother, adventures, lounge, departure, welcome
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-02-10
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1400067952
ISBN-13: 9781400067954

The adventure begins when Meg’s mother, Addie, vacationing in Florida, takes a spill. At the hospital, Addie bolts upright on her gurney and yells “I demand an autopsy!” before passing out cold.“One minute, she is unconscious, the next, she’s nuts,” observes Meg Federico in this hilarious and poignant memoir of taking care of eighty-year-old Addie and her relatively new (and equally old) husband, Walter, in their not-so-golden years. Addie’s accident is a portent of things to come over the next two years as Meg oversees her mother’s home care in the Departure Lounge, the nickna

Author: Lynette Walker
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Keywords: selfhood, cancer, breast, mothering
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2006-07-06
List price: $21.50
ISBN-10: 1553694848
ISBN-13: 9781553694847

This three-part story illuminates an introspective process in coming to terms first with breast cancer and mastectomy and then gradually with the long-term subjective components underlying the disease. Part I documents my first attempt to make sense of breast cancer. I show how I dealt with the diagnosis and treatments, payng particular attention to the nature of my thoughts, feelings, dreams, and fantasies. I show how, amid the terror, anger and sadness, my creative self-expression in journalling, active imagination, poetry, ceramics and colored drawings made a positive difference. Pa

Authors:Brid Featherstone, Wendy Hollway,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: ambivalence, mothering
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1997-10-29
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0415139112
ISBN-13: 9780415139113

Parenting, single motherhood and the breakdown of the family are all subjects of current political and social debate in the West, and there is little agreement among cultural commentators on what mothers should be, what children need, and how those needs conflict with parental needs. The contributors to Mothering and Ambivalence address these issues, countering the reluctance of current feminist literature to embrace psychoanalytic understandings of dependency, identity and anxiety. They use psychoanalysis to go beyond the often simplistic claims of the political debate on mothering. In discus

Author: Mizin Park Kawasaki
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: care, maternal, breastfeeding, mothering
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 2005-08-29
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0595335462
ISBN-13: 9780595335466

As women continue to bear children, all parents should ask the following question: how can a woman fulfill her unique responsibility as mother to her child when prevailing parenting practices deny the importance of breastfeeding and maternal care? Dr. Kawasaki, a pediatrician and stay-at-home mother of two, offers compelling reasons for parents to think seriously about the unique role women play in their children’s lives, particularly in early childhood. She argues that the priceless benefits of breastfeeding and hands-on maternal care help to ensure the optimal growth and developmen

Author: Nancy J. Chodorow
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: gender, updated, sociology, psychoanalysis, mothering, reproduction
Number of Pages: 283
Published: 1999-11-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520221559
ISBN-13: 9780520221550

UPDATED EDITION WITH A NEW PREFACE When this best-seller was published two decades ago, it put the mother-daughter relationship and female psychology on the map. The Reproduction of Mothering was recently chosen by Contemporary Sociology as one of the ten most influential books of the past twenty-five years. With a new preface by the author, this updated edition is testament to the formative effect that Nancy Chodorows work continues to exert on psychoanalysis, social science, and the humanities.