Praise for these Motherhood Essays
“...I read every page [of It's a Boy: Women Writers on
Raising Sons] with the alternate
pleasures of recognition and discovery. These are funny, true,
and occasionally heart-wrenching essays.”
—
Joyce Maynard, author of
The Usual Rules
“The essays in [It's a Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters]
are so candid and unflinching they had me laughing, cringing,
and bobbing my head in identification all at the same time.”
— Hope Edelman, author of
Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
Gwendolen Gross contributed the motherhood essay "Entering the Den of Math" to the collection It's a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons. Ms. Gross also contributed the essay about motherhood "Feeling is First: On Beauty and a Daughter" to the collection It's a Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters. Both collections are edited by Andrea J. Buchanan.
It's A Boy is about the experience of mothering boys, taking on
topics like aggression, parenting a teenage boy, and wishing for a daughter
but getting a son.
It's a Girl explores what it's really like to raise a girl from
babyhood to adulthood, touching on the experience of the
mother-daughter bond, dealing with a daughter's eating disorder,
and mothering hardcore mini-feminists.
Read the
Introduction, or read the
USA Today article about the Girl and Boy
books.
