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...thought that it would elicit my views on teaching and writing. I thought that I would talk about motherhood," Morrison said. "I thought that I would talk about Gerard Manley Hopkins or about how poverty is romanticized in American culture...

Author: By Joseph P. Flood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Morisson Expounds on Race | 4/4/2001 | See Source »

...four years old, a lisping munchkin with deep-blue saucer-eyes had almost fully intuited the myriad arcane, inexplicable rules of English grammar, and was constructing extensive stream-of-consciousness narratives on a wide range of topics from proper dining etiquette for tropical fish to the telos of motherhood. Her speech was even peppered with endearing neologisms applicable to her world (like "encenter" meaning "ready for the new day," a word which I now find quite useful...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, | Title: It's Elementary | 3/20/2001 | See Source »

...actual labor. Ruth Callahan of New York City owns Doula Care, a service that provides postpartum home services, including help with breast-feeding, new-baby and new-mother care. The doulas might even run errands or baby-sit siblings. "I was much more interested in the transition into motherhood--teaching them about breast-feeding and helping them gather their confidence," says Callahan. Doulas tend to specialize in either labor or postpartum work but rarely do both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: One Labor-Intensive Job | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...torrent of "family-friendly" political rhetoric and vented her feelings by writing The Baby Boon, last year's scathing indictment of policies that "cheat the childless." Now comes a rebuttal. Following the birth of her only child, former New York Times economic reporter Ann Crittenden became angry that motherhood had damaged her financial well-being and caused her to "shed status like the skin off a snake." Under the title The Price of Motherhood, published last month, she vented her feelings in a scathing indictment of policies that cheat mothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Mommy Tract | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

Given the passion each author musters, mothers will be relieved that Crittenden, for the moment, has the last word. Though her thesis--that parenting imposes unfair penalties on women--is as old as motherhood itself, she stitches together recent research with a brief history of wifery and turns out a fresh, persuasive argument. Inflexible workplaces, financial inequities in marriage (and divorce), and the ineligibility of unpaid caregivers for the government's major social-insurance programs make motherhood the "single biggest risk factor for poverty in old age," she writes. Her recipe for "bring[ing] children up without putting women down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Mommy Tract | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

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