Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves


Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves by HarperCollins

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The challenges facing mothers in the twenty-first century go well beyond tantrum control and potty training. Camille Peri and Kate Moses, the founding editors of Salon.com's "Mothers Who Think" column and the subsequent anthology of the same name, have once again compiled a selection of intimate and fiercely honest essays on the profound issues that affect women and their children.

Because I Said So offers thirty-three unique perspectives on motherhood from such writers as Janet Fitch, Mariane Pearl, Ayelet Waldman, Mary Roach, Rosellen Brown, Mary Morris, and Ana Castillo. Witty and wise, their stories range from the anguish of giving up child custody to the guilt of having sex in an era of sexless marriages; from learning to love the full-speed testosterone chaos of boys to raising girls in a pervasively sexualized culture; from facing racial and religious intolerance to surviving cancer and rap simultaneously. This is the collective voice of real mothers in all their humor, anger, vulnerability, grace, and glory.

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Black Relationships: Great Sex for Moms: Ten Steps to Nurturing ...

by Kate Saunders

The only book from a physician-mom with warm, practical, and medically sound advice that will help moms reclaim their passion for sex

There’s one thing that almost every mother knows but won’t discuss: Sex drive diminishes after a baby is born, and it’s a struggle to reclaim passion in the years that follow.

In Great Sex for Moms Dr. Raskin brings the problem out into the open — at last. From her fifteen years as a psychiatrist she knows that mothers silently rationalize that sex will return “after...

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