Perhaps social support does improve women’s feelings about motherhood. However, recent articles, during the time of COVID, for example, would indicate that the fundamental challenges for women who are mothers remain fundamentally unchanged. A recent New York Times article, This Is a Primal Scream, depicts the frustration of America’s maternal mental health crisis, as does this article by Kimberly Seals Allers in the Washington Post titled Female Rage is All The Rage (2018). Cathi Hanauer and friends have an updated version of this book called The Bitch Is Back: Getting Older, Wiser, and Happier. The original Bitch in the House is part of MOM’s library.
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GENDER DISAPPOINTMENT: What it is, how it feels, how to handle it (LINK)
MEET OUR NEW INTERN! Dee Shaffner (Merritt) is a first-time college student at Cayuga Community College in Fulton New York. Dee is currently workings towards her Associates’s Degree in Liberal Arts with a concentration in Psychology. She is a single mother to 3 wonderful (and extra silly) little boys, Lucas, Logan, and Liam. In addition toContinue reading “GENDER DISAPPOINTMENT: What it is, how it feels, how to handle it (LINK)”
Annual Academic MOM Conference, NYC 2019: Rewriting Trauma
REWRITING TRAUMA & VISIBILITY Motherwork, Pregnancy, and Birth Manhattan College Bronx, NY APRIL 5-6 2019 The MOM Conference 2019 is sponsored by the Lasallian Women and Gender Resource Center and the Manhattan College Department of Sociology Calling all sociologists, women’s, sexuality, and gender scholars, masculinity studies scholars, birth-workers, doctors, maternal psychologists, motherhood and fatherhood scholars,Continue reading “Annual Academic MOM Conference, NYC 2019: Rewriting Trauma”