Because I Said So
33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves
By Kate Moses; Camille Peri
(Harper Paperbacks, Paperback, 9780060598792, 400pp.)
Publication Date: January 2006
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook
Categories: Family Relationships, Parenting - Motherhood
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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.
Kate Moses is a former contributing writer for Salon.com and one of the founding editors of Salon's Mothers Who Think. She is also the author of Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath, winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, as well as coeditor, with Camille Peri, of Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children.
“Smart, touching and often provocative.”
-People
“Skip the flowers and candy this Mother’s Day, and buy this book instead.
-Publishers Weekly
“Women will appreciate the humor and candor, and men will gain insight into the stunning challenges of motherhood.”
-Booklist
“The creators of ‘Mothers Who Think’ have assembled smart, fierce, honest stories that are distinguished by their originality.”
-Chicago Tribune
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