| 单词 | motherhood |
| 例句 | Our afternoons together taught me that there was no formula for motherhood. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I was a healthy young woman and I was going to have this baby, and I would deal with motherhood when it came. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z He adopted the Southern editorial policy, “Love American motherhood and hate sin” and never mention Negroes except in a manner harmonious to the Southern Way of Life. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z As though she had temporarily set aside the morality of motherhood and divorcee-hood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She married young, threw herself into motherhood, and had to adjust to a new culture and language when she moved to America. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The girl was silent for a few minutes before she asked, “Do you think she meant that stuff about motherhood?” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Cleopatra’s ties to Isis linked her to the goddess’s power over motherhood and love. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Others took up the mantle of “social motherhood,” focused on care of black children and the poor. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Like many new parents, Stanton prepared for motherhood by reading dozens of books and consulting doctors for advice. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z His next stop was Dana Matherson’s house, where another shaky example of motherhood lived. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I had no interest in babies or the concept of motherhood. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z She would not let herself believe it, for she worried a good deal about her own capacity for motherhood, about whether she said the right things and looked sufficiently at ease, in his presence. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z She wished she’d understood then what she understood now about motherhood. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “No. I think the court has custody. For the moment, at any rate. The mother is a remarkably beautiful woman, but not one in whom, shall we say, the flame of motherhood burns very brightly.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z But motherhood had also brought with it a set of wonderful friendships. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He waited for her anger to come in fusillades of outraged motherhood, smothering southern platitudes, and Catholic theology. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s the consequence: motherhood in a foreign land. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She flew into a fit of concerned, if drunken, motherhood, and dragged Teapot home. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I can’t dare say I loved the others less, but my first three were all babies at once, and motherhood dismayed me entirely. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway it seems to me more accurate about motherhood than the old bloodless milk-and-water Virgins of art history. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In her month and a half of turbulent motherhood, Bebe did not once seek help from a psychologist or a doctor. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The Unmix- able Mix—the infinite tenderness of motherhood, the reckless rage of a suicide bomber. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “And I’m sorry, but I don’t think you’re really motherhood material, are you, Megs?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She helps the woman realize, in some small way, her motherhood. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I had not even the instincts of a mother cat I wanted to flee both Elsinore and the unknown fate of motherhood, though such escape seemed impossible, except by my death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Teapot’s Mamma got a lot of attention anyway and immersed herself in a role she had shown no inclination for: motherhood. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Then, as if in slow motion, she tumbles forward, a thrashing avalanche of patriotism and motherhood, crushing three spectators and a table of apple tartlets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as gratefulness was confused in my mind with love, so possession became mixed up with motherhood. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time, Frightful felt the all-consuming oneness of motherhood. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She would buy books about motherhood and find a wet nurse and decorate the bedroom. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The infinite tenderness of motherhood and the reckless rage of a suicide bomber. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The primary target was the embodiment of motherhood and purity, the Southern white woman. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I am not alone in constructing women whose lives were both darkened and lightened by motherhood. Mothers and monsters: On writing through the terror of parenthood 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z But it’s Cusk’s earlier memoir, A LIFE’S WORK, about her first year of motherhood, that has earned a permanent and essential place on my nightstand this year. New & Noteworthy 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Conley captures the effects of the decline of the fishing industry on one household, as well as the great swells and troughs of motherhood and marriage. Read Your Way Through Maine 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Translated from Spanish by Rosalind Harvey, it follows two best friends who share an aversion to motherhood only for one to fall pregnant. Subversive Novels Dominate Shortlist for International Booker Prize 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Her art and motherhood “were really intertwined,” she continued. Sally Mann Turns Her Lens to Friendship and Loss 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Crown wrote in a statement that the book will also touch on Mrs. Obama’s time in the White House, motherhood and her public health campaign and more. Michelle Obama’s Memoir to Arrive in November 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z From the time I was old enough to conceptualise my future, motherhood made sense to me. Going it alone: why I chose single motherhood 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z The liminal space between motherhood and womanhood, where the two intertwine and diverge, is strong in this and several of the other stories. Women's stories, in the best way: Kirstin Allio's new collection 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z She bought her first tumbler after seeing a post by Isabelle Baker, a blogger and influencer from Salt Lake City whose content is focused partly on motherhood. The Sisterhood of the Stanley Tumbler 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z The distracted nature of motherhood, the never-ending worry, and the constant efforts to ward off an unexpected toddler meltdown. Kleptomania and a mother’s love: The five-finger discount is my personal rebellion against inequality 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z The depiction of motherhood as a trap—of having one’s self subsumed by another human’s needs—is a well-established trope, and the reader might wonder if the narrator suffers from a postpartum disorder. Motherhood Meets Lust and Violence in Ariana Harwicz’s “Die, My Love” 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Some fear the bill would open the way to loosening laws on surrogate motherhood, which is illegal in Italy. Pope Francis defends 'traditional' marriage ahead of Italy civil unions vote 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z The narrator's material privilege gives a special intensity to her account of pregnancy and motherhood, partly because she does not have other things to worry about. The Millstone by Margaret Drabble 2011-03-26T00:05:29Z Intellectually galvanizing and emotionally harrowing, the story explores motherhood, race and postcolonial France with control, lucidity and compassion. In Toronto, Films by Women About Women, but That’s Where the Similarities End 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Yes, what I was being asked about were the universal themes, the human themes, the friendships, the betrayals, the relationships between the women in the book, motherhood, the role that motherhood played. Wayétu Moore on writing the immortal heroine of "She Would Be King": "She grew as I grew" 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Sardesai pressed on, saying, “You don’t talk in the book about raising a family, motherhood, what’s life beyond tennis going to be.” Sania Mirza doesn’t need to “settle down”: “No matter how many Wimbledons we win” women are still asked about motherhood and marriage 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z She said that McGhee’s pilot script spoke to her more than any other she has read, given her personal experience with navigating single motherhood and rediscovering her voice after a time away from the spotlight. Brandy Scored Her ‘Dream Role’ in ‘Queens’ 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z I understand the guilt of motherhood in terms of missing moments and not being there. A Minute With: Diane Lane, off to the races in "Secretariat" 2010-10-07T15:54:00Z These jokes are often accompanied by sincere messages about how negative feelings about motherhood are valid, and that it’s important to speak out. When Motherhood Is a Horror Show 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z "And in this way civilization becomes aged and without humanity, because it loses the richness of fatherhood and motherhood," he continued. 5 Popes who formed a holy bond with their animal companions, from cats and dogs to even an elephant 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z “Black Dove” is a collection of essays about different parts of Castillo’s life, including single motherhood, her son’s incarceration and her rediscovery of Mexico, her ancestral home. What to do after Orlando: Read LGBTQ stories 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z She describes her artwork, motherhood and marriage: the first, familiar and comforting; the second, challenging and rewarding; the third, heartbreaking. Kim Gordon’s ‘Girl in a Band’ 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Do you think some audiences just aren’t interested in hearing about the messiness of motherhood? Talking with Dena Blizzard: How She Became ‘One Funny Mother’ 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Recorded after the birth of Tirzah’s first child and shortly before the arrival of her second, the album engages themes of motherhood, birth, death and community. Tirzah’s Genre-Less Pop Embraces the Beauty of Uncertainty 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z In “Homeland’s” fourth season, Carrie Mathison has been forced to come home from Islamabad, where she had been tagged the “Drone Queen,” to a softer, more empathetic space: motherhood. Why the bathtub scene on last night’s “Homeland” was so uniquely disturbing 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Thanks to TV shows such as this and films such as Bad Moms and Bridget Jones’s Baby, a messier view of motherhood is having a moment in pop culture. Bad moms: why messy motherhood is finally being accepted on screen 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z The "Las Vegas" alum shared how "an entire world of motherhood opened" up to her when she and husband Scott Stuber welcomed Brooks, their first child, in June 2012. Molly Sims announces baby No. 2 with help from son Brooks 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Patsy, who yearns for a life that encompasses more than motherhood and dull work, believes she knows exactly how to get it. Review | In ‘Patsy,’ a woman goes in search of freedom — and leaves her daughter behind 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Most nights, the three of us tangled together to sleep; absolute single motherhood was financially terrifying but filled my heart and head with complete love. ‘Get a lock on the bedroom door’: how to have a sex life when you've got children 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Perhaps most controversially, she believes that feminist campaigns around workplace parity and equal pay have “negated motherhood” in their quest for women to be equal to men. The Vatican editor who exposed the sexual abuse of nuns – and took on the Pope 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z For instance, the same survey found a dramatic uptick in the acceptance of single motherhood. Divorce is a good thing: Americans have become too judgmental about marital separation — you must accept that not all marriages work out 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z My earlier novels were at heart tales of fatherhood and motherhood. Publisher: New Khaled Hosseini novel out May 21 2012-10-29T17:45:08Z While many of my female peers matured into fantasies about wedding gowns and motherhood, I read the biographies of writers and imagined myself holding court in Paris cafes. From dominatrix to professor: ‘I didn’t want my students to imagine me tying men up’ 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z The media's estimation of public interest in motherhood, and moral judgments of it, knows no bounds. My verdict on Uma Thurman's Motherhood 2010-03-31T08:00:00Z But as soon as he was brought to me and began to nurse, his peachy soft new self against my exhausted body, I felt anointed to motherhood. Motherlode Blog: For an Adoptee Parent, Breastfeeding as Revelation 2012-07-25T11:00:05Z My uneasy Catholic motherhood Topics: , , , , confirmation, , It’s probably a lot easier if you’re certain. My uneasy Catholic motherhood 2013-05-26T20:30:00Z Tessa’s daughterly dissatisfaction — “You’re the worst mom ever, and I’m not the only one who thinks so” — has had the perverse effect of motivating Gini to give herself another shot at motherhood. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Everywhere You Look, Love Triangles 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z The folkie pop artist tours in support of the album, "Leave Your Sleep," inspired by motherhood. The Week Ahead: Natalie Merchant, Seattle Opera's 'Tristan und Isolde' and Movies at the Mural 2010-07-28T21:47:00Z If I could describe motherhood in one word, it would be overwhelming. I don’t want “mom friends”: As a new parent, I need my old friends now more than ever 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z She has published two books, Closer and Diary of a Dancer; she is contributing to a 2013 group show about motherhood at the Photographers Gallery in London. Dinner, dusk and dancing Russians: my best winter shot 2012-12-16T17:59:01Z One of the problems with the way we talk about motherhood in this country is that you're just expected to love it. From “Evil Dead Rise” to “Clock,” motherhood is horror, but how we talk about it is worse 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z The motherhood divide in female friendships, real and fictional, can be painful, and for some it proves impossible to navigate. Recommended reading for April: New must-read books to liven up long shutdown days 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Warner finds her a pernicious role model, an “icon of feminine perfection, built on the equivalence between goodness, motherhood, purity, gentleness and submission.” T Magazine: Immaculate Perception 2010-12-05T23:00:00Z Certainly moving into season three, how do you redefine who you are as a woman and how do you redefine motherhood once you are no longer actively serving as a mother? On Toni Morrison, motherhood and "Pose": A conversation with Steven Canals 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Joanna is obviously a deeply unhappy woman, forced to cede her ambitions to her career-driven husband and beaten down by motherhood, with all its hassles and loneliness. Kramer vs Kramer at 40: a flawed film that remains a deserving classic 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z At its center is the intensely fraught push and pull of motherhood, but it also touches on ambition, sacrifice, aging and art. Maggie Gyllenhaal Has Dangerous Ideas About Directing 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z By the early 1950s Ms. Leslie had left motion pictures to focus on marriage and motherhood, though she continued to act on television during the next four decades. Joan Leslie, a Hollywood Girl Next Door, Dies at 90 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z She’s become an impressive storyteller, a musical historian excavating frothy disco and lithe funk, and a voice reporting from the frontiers of new love, fading love and motherhood. Review: Mariah Carey's Collects All of Her Hits on '#1 to Infinity' 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z For the women contestants on that show, in particular, there are often additional layers of motivation for becoming a good cook steeped in long-standing societal views on domesticity and motherhood. From the ambitious to the everyday, cookbooks are a magical portal to our culinary futures 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Yes, it’s jarring to see a woman in a quintessential act of motherhood, with her face in a bong. 'Cannabis strengthened our bond': can pot make you a better parent? 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z It’s “a haunting, wrenching and surprising tale of race, apartheid, motherhood and revenge, told in an original voice by an Afrikaans writer,” she said. ArtsBeat Blog: Editors and Critics Pick Their Favorite Books of 2011 2011-12-09T22:28:27Z In place of its vision of stoic motherhood, Saville's images are a hectic whirl of energy. This week's new exhibitions 2012-06-22T23:06:30Z A devastating childhood, an unconventional first marriage and her embrace of motherhood when she is in her 60s all lead her down a path of self-fulfillment. A 16-year-old runs off with her English teacher in Caroline Leavitt’s new novel 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Of all the lessons motherhood has taught me, the most salient comes from my own mum: "It's always better to say 'Here it is' than 'Where is it?'" My number one parenting trick? Always save those two last bites 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Sure, sure — "Splice" does not offer an edifying portrait of motherhood, or of daughterhood either, and you may construct a feminist critique around that if you'd like. "Splice": Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley make a monster 2010-06-04T16:01:00Z The latest book suggests that our desire to return to a “more natural” world distorts our views of motherhood. Cultural Studies: Elisabeth Badinter Defends the Imperfect Mother 2010-06-04T19:00:00Z In many ways, though, they are in greater immediate pain, as they want a baby right now, while I consider motherhood an abstract concept to be explored sometime in the future. 2010-01-29T21:20:00Z Rama is writing "a Madea project" about Laurence's case and there is talk about maternal instincts, but both women have uneasy thoughts about motherhood. "Saint Omer" examines the darkest maternity taboos and the "language of the accused" 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z And as a mother myself — a person who was fortunate to be able to choose motherhood when I was physically and emotionally ready — I wish the same for my daughters and all our daughters. Face it, anti-abortion advocates: Pro-choice is pro-life 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z If she, too, had to face motherhood without a mother one day, she’d be better equipped than I had been. Modern Love: A 5-Pound Sack of Maternal Wisdom 2010-10-22T18:56:00Z If motherhood wasn’t going to be part of the future I had always imagined for myself, where else would I find fulfilment? Why we should learn to embrace failure | Elizabeth Day 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z For Kathleen Lincoln, watching her sister’s journey to motherhood has been emotional. She was conjoined to her twin for the first 7 months of life. Now an adult, she just had her own baby. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z If egg freezing is a medical solution to a social problem, the social problem is not employers’ attitudes to motherhood, she says, but men’s. We need to talk about egg freezing 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z After receiving a master’s in comparative literature from Radcliffe in 1948, she was enveloped by marriage and motherhood in the Boston suburbs. Maxine Kumin, Pulitzer-Winning Poet, Dies at 88 2014-02-07T20:50:12Z But it was truly in motherhood that I found her again, even though our experiences couldn’t be more different. Our most dangerous hike 2012-05-21T01:00:00Z She writes about motherhood, too, describing an outing with her sons one evening in Los Angeles to look at the full moon. Review: ‘Yes Please,’ by Amy Poehler June has greater predilections for decorating and smoking than motherhood. Review | Jenna Blum’s ‘The Lost Family’ is lost in needless detail 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z For Bombeck, the great cosmic joke was motherhood, and suburban motherhood in particular. Why Erma Bombeck is still the patron saint of motherhood comedy 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z A child is always supposed to be a blessing, and motherhood is always supposed to be your highest purpose as a woman. My mom finally made her choice, after a lifetime colored by the one she wasn't allowed 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z The show has been greeted warmly by critics and fans for its raw depiction of new motherhood, and in its second season Bell and Scheller wanted to dial up the darkness and realism. Mothers who have abortions: what to do with TV’s third rail? 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z They’re written proof of how much her father and I loved Polly But I think the best thing to do is to lock them away until she reaches adulthood – or motherhood, whichever she fancies. Sex, drugs, honeymoon, motherhood – what if my child reads my diaries? 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z It too concerns motherhood, though in a different register and to dissimilar ends. In Toronto, Films by Women About Women, but That’s Where the Similarities End 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z I don’t think it’s uncommon and there are certainly some mothers whose lives become exclusively about motherhood. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When two friends are no longer speaking to each other 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z It’s a fire-and-brimstone examination of economic and gender inequality, motherhood and friendship. Sleater-Kinney, the Decemberists and Belle and Sebastian look to add to their legacies 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z There are so many horror movies these days that dig deeper into the anxieties and fears of family and motherhood; though still, bravo to whoever came up with the tagline: “Mommy loves you to death.” ‘Evil Dead Rise’ Review: Mommy Issues 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z “The Golden State” anchors Daphne’s journey in the visceral and material realities of motherhood. In “The Golden State,” Lydia Kiesling Brings Motherhood to the Road Novel 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z The elevation of motherhood is perhaps one of America's greatest tricks. Mother's Day is gaslighting 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z Sure, plenty of women are upended by the experience of new motherhood – but plenty of women aren’t. Marissa Mayer’s new job 2012-07-17T23:13:00Z The hardships and ethical impurities of the past complicate any rosy notions of how motherhood used to be. A Historian Looks at Pregnancy and Mothering Through the Ages 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z The Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis came to Coppins’ defense, and even expressed admiration for Mormon ideals of motherhood. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z The timing wasn't a complete coincidence: I was 30, and something about the sheer animal contentment of motherhood made me realise, with mild panic, that I would now probably never write. Maggie O'Farrell, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Julie Myerson on working around parenthood 2010-08-01T20:45:00Z To address what she called “false assumptions” that hinder female employees — for instance managers might believe motherhood makes a candidate less able to handle increased responsibility — the studio offers on-site child care and schedule flexibility. The Women of ‘Star Wars.’ (It’s Not Who You Think.) 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Any advice for this mama, who is madly in love with her child but a bit resentful of all-consuming motherhood? Perspective | I love my child but I don’t love parenting. Will this change? 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z “Ladyparts,” Copaken’s seventh and most ambitious book, is a characteristically incisive takedown of the impact of misogyny on health care, divorce, solo motherhood, middle-aged dating, housing and employment. Deborah Copaken never wanted to be ‘Shutterbabe.’ Her new memoir is on her terms. 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z And suddenly Cordy and her mother share the thought of motherhood as a common bond. Books of The Times: A Family Speaks in Someone Else?s Words, but at Least It Chooses the Best 2011-01-16T18:30:55Z She notes, for example, “the wild velocity of motherhood.” Review: Sarah Manguso Offers Crumbs Relating to Her Diary 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z “Tomboyland” unfolds somewhat chronologically, from Faliveno’s childhood obsession with tornadoes to her adolescent obsession with being an athlete and her adult preoccupations with roller derby, pantry moths, gun culture, class and the idea of motherhood. Review | Melissa Faliveno’s ‘Tomboyland’ essays offer funny, moving explorations of self and society 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z How do you feel “The Baby” fits in with the recent spate of films and TV depicting motherhood as a horror show? In ‘The Baby,’ Killing With Cuteness 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z High point: "Featuring in a forthcoming show about motherhood at the Photographers' Gallery in London this autumn." Kids, Crayons and a naked figure 2013-01-10T07:30:04Z It was the night before Mother’s Day, and I was pretty smug about the whole motherhood thing. The Half-Empty Nest 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Betty, as the series winds to a close next year, may never learn to embrace the unfettered joys of motherhood. An Interview With January Jones of ‘Mad Men’ 2013-05-17T22:09:45Z This summer, Bad Moms also railed against polished, prescriptive modes of motherhood. Bad moms: why messy motherhood is finally being accepted on screen 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Over the course of her marathon toward motherhood, she visits two fertility clinics in London, one in New York, another in Moscow and has consultations in Boston, Geneva and Frankfurt. Two Books Explore the Front Lines of Infertility 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z As Orenstein describes it, femivorism helps give social legitimacy to stay-at-home motherhood, which is something we see in many facets of New Domesticity. Is Michael Pollan a sexist pig? 2013-04-28T01:00:00Z Airing in the recent wake of the fall of Roe, the film takes an "amusingly dreadful approach" to pregnancy and motherhood, the Wall Street Journal writes. From “Evil Dead Rise” to “Clock,” motherhood is horror, but how we talk about it is worse 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z I think the issue is more that for some women, women like me — with a history of depression and a hereditary predisposition toward emotional instability — motherhood and sanity just aren’t 100 percent compatible. Is motherhood causing my depression? 2013-02-25T23:30:00Z But all Gisele was doing was posting a photo of her own motherhood reality, one that exists in a sphere of appointments and other people. Don’t hate Gisele for breastfeeding glamorously 2013-12-12T16:01:00Z Knott, a professor at Indiana University, uses her own path to motherhood, which includes a miscarriage and two successful pregnancies, as the scaffolding for her engaging and pleasingly radical “unconventional history” of this subject. A Historian Looks at Pregnancy and Mothering Through the Ages 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z She lived it, and her songs spoke of traveling the long road of rural womanhood with its twists and turns of sex, abuse, motherhood, family, struggle and love. By turning straw into gold records, Loretta Lynn helped me love where I come from 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Over the course of seven years, “through the joys and troubles of love and motherhood and the grief of a major loss,” Austen’s novels become Cohen’s “enduring companion.” New in Paperback: ‘Transcendent Kingdom’ and ‘Agent Sonya’ 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z The idea of not finding motherhood easy, or not being a good wife or not being a natural homemaker. "Shining Vale" creator on the horror of midlife: "Depression and possession share similar symptoms" 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z The theme begins to work at all sorts of cross-purposes and contradictions: Is motherhood the surest source of strength and security? Perspective | In ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘Homeland,’ two heroines judged by their devotion to motherhood 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Anything other than the “glow” deviates from our cultural expectation: that pregnancy and motherhood are filled with eternal joy. No, Kate Middleton isn’t “glowing” 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z As Carey and Simon run through baby names and ultrasounds even as Carey seems increasingly ambivalent about her impending motherhood, the rather mild invectives mount, at times amusingly. Fringe Festival in Review 2010-08-18T21:22:00Z The joy and pleasure in new motherhood has been de-emphasised – and there is a cost. Should women really be rushing back to work after giving birth? 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z It was the image that triggered a global debate about motherhood. I’m glad I started a debate, says athlete who breastfed on ultra-marathon 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Reckless, promiscuous and self-destructive, she wanted children yet had several abortions because she believed motherhood was incompatible with a career. Painter Joan Mitchell finally gets her due 2011-05-02T10:57:09Z Later, she embarks on something approaching motherhood, when hired by a young boy whose own mother has gone missing. ‘Temporary’ Is a Debut Novel That Leans Into the Absurdity of How We Work Now 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z The first drug to be marketed as “a drug for the tensions of the motherhood role,” was Miltown in the ’50s, Dr. Metzl said, followed less than a decade later by Valium. Mother’s Little Helper Is Back, and Daddy’s Partaking Too 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z Gyllenhaal is best at creating a discomfiting mood in her psychological investigation of motherhood. Olivia Colman is magnificent in the mysterious "Lost Daughter," which hooks you and doesn't let go 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z We all perform motherhood in front of other mothers. When is a mother good enough? 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z The reality is, motherhood is complex, and feelings about it are complicated, personal and rarely figured out as fast as these films would have you believe. From “Evil Dead Rise” to “Clock,” motherhood is horror, but how we talk about it is worse 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z Better Things is often discussed as a show that paints an honest and raw portrait of motherhood, and of the complicated relationships between daughters and mothers, at any age. Better Things gets better: Pamela Adlon triumphs without Louis CK 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z What can you say about this issue of women's conflicted ideas about motherhood? "Saint Omer" examines the darkest maternity taboos and the "language of the accused" 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z "And Just Like That," like "Sex and the City" before it, is allergic to mounting substantial conversations about everything, including the cost/reward analysis of juggling motherhood and career. "And Just Like That" isn't brave enough to let Lisa Todd Wexley have a real choice with motherhood 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z The larger point of the kidnapping caper, however, was to set up a simpler, more sympathetic plot: Jane’s struggle to adjust to motherhood. ‘Jane the Virgin’ Season 2 Premiere Recap: ‘Chapter Twenty-Three’ 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z In another, “Difference Maker,” Daum unsparingly details her ambivalence about motherhood and her wrenching turn as a court-appointed advocate for a foster child. Contemporary Womanhood, in Fact and Fiction 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z This lasted 10 weeks, before the better parts of motherhood began. Modern Love: A 5-Pound Sack of Maternal Wisdom 2010-10-22T18:56:00Z To look is to violate her claim to a life before me, a private moment with her dog, her right to childhood, play in the snow, the chance of free time before marriage and motherhood. The lost promise of nostalgia: What modern pop culture gets wrong 2014-03-16T20:00:00Z “The possibility that you can delay motherhood until you’ve got your life in the order you want before you start a family.” We need to talk about egg freezing 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z In Sam’s world, these aren’t so much sacrifices of single motherhood as the facts of life. “Better Things,” Pamela Adlon’s Unlikely Ode to Single Motherhood 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z The actress and Morganthaler spoke to Salon about motherhood and making the riveting drama, “The 11th Hour.” Kim Basinger on her “11th Hour” role: “I wanted to portray being maternal, which is so powerful and innate in a woman’s psyche” 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z You notice it in conversations: whether you're suggesting that motherhood isn't all bliss, or it's a good idea to cut back on air travel for the sake of the future. Helen Simpson: 'I stuffed it with sex and violence' 2010-05-28T06:00:00Z The ensemble, which counts Billy Crudup as the omnipresent, good-natured handyman, delivers a warm and textured exploration of motherhood and longing and the quest to figure one’s identity at any age. Annette Bening Takes the Hot Seat in 20th Century Women Clip 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z This recent candor from Hollywood stars is a marked difference from the way many celebs talked about pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood in the past. Cardi B, Serena Williams, Pink: New celebrity moms are changing the game by getting real 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z If anything was guiding her career, it was motherhood. A Soprano With a Bottomless Appetite for Risk 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z The self-portraits Kahlo produced in Detroit dramatize her unflinching response to the miscarriage that ensued after a period of doubt about her fitness for motherhood. Frida Kahlo in ‘Gringolandia’ 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Beyoncé’s reveal was a definitive entrance to motherhood, an invitation for fans to celebrate her transformation. Perspective | Rihanna’s pregnancy was not the star of her halftime show 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Each of them wrestle with the weight of duty and the obligations of motherhood; the Queen and the Prime Minister spark a rivalry straightaway when it becomes apparent that their personalities don't mix. "The Crown" returns with Princess Di & Margaret Thatcher testing the Queen's humanity 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z The mag put her comments on motherhood into the breakup context by titling the post "Ciara Talks About Motherhood and Life After Future Split: I'm Focused, 'Very Happy.'" Ciara, Future reportedly back together -- that is, if they ever split 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z The experience of motherhood portrayed is very narrow – almost entirely middle class, and, I’m guessing, almost entirely white. Motherlode: Talking About Torn 2011-06-21T15:52:15Z For all of the constructedness, Diamond seems to suggest in these photographs, the rites of motherhood remain both meaningful and real. The Women Who Mother Lifelike Baby Dolls 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z It was very, very funny, and laid out some hard truths that veered sharply from the Hallmark version of motherhood. Anne Lamott, Leftie Guru of Optimism 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z Loss — of motherhood, of marriage, of a planned life — is at the core of this haunting memoir. Paperback Row 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Children were not to be a focus of the letters, but even so, the routines of motherhood are present on many of the pages. Eleanor Birne's top 10 books on motherhood 2011-03-30T15:44:16Z Beginning in sepia tones and moving into color, Ms. Mehra manages to suggest the women’s struggles around femininity, fertility, motherhood and independence, skilfully weaving the dancers — and their individual stories — together. A William Forsythe Sampler, JoyceStream and Bourne’s Legacy 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z She began freelancing in 1945, and a year later won her first Oscar in "To Each His Own," a sentimental melodrama about unwed motherhood. Olivia de Havilland, "Gone With the Wind" star, dies at 104 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z "Christmas" is also interested in what motherhood does to aspiring female artists. 'Happy Christmas' piles insecurities, angsty comedy under tree 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z This is where the fruit we used as a stand-in for depression, motherhood or a bad ex is transformed back into its original, edible self. Pick Your Poison: The Sweet, Sometimes Lethal Sides of Your Produce 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z “To question fear would be to question everything, the entire institution of American motherhood.” Is Fear the Last Taboo of American Motherhood? 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Chickens, foremost; cleaning houses for a real estate broker friend, which she does for a living; her neighborhood; her late-in-life pregnancy and miscarriage; motherhood. Can Walking on Eggshells Have a Healing Effect? Maybe. 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z The expectations for young girls growing up into women were marriage and motherhood. "They cannot survive without fear": A heretic on leaving the evangelical church 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z What started as a hobby grew into an artistic examination of motherhood and heritage. Behind the Wheel in L.A., With a New Destination 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z The advantage of Winnicott’s model is that it is, on the one hand, radically forgiving, sensitive to motherhood’s Sisyphean demands and emotional complexity. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z South Asia may boast women leaders and be home to cultures that revere motherhood and worship female deities, but many girls and women live with the threat of violence and without many basic rights. 'Kung Fu' nuns bike Himalayas to oppose human trafficking 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z "The thing I've come to learn is that you don't often realize that the little things in motherhood truly are the big things until the little things are over." Mom's viral post-Christmas plea reminds us: 'Let’s raise a cold coffee mug' 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z As a new parent in St. Louis, she blogged about motherhood and began her long-running radio program, “The Dana Show.” The National Rifle Association’s Telegenic Warrior 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z It is fundamentally about the uncertainty of motherhood, and about compassion in the face of brutality — about seeking, as one character says, salvation over vengeance. Review: Revisiting a Kaija Saariaho Opera Days After Her Death 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z Lisa is exhausted trying to balance motherhood and work, so forgets that Lucinda is coming to stay on the night she goes missing... Thrillers – review roundup 2013-05-24T10:01:00Z However, I am worried that I am modeling at-home motherhood as the default. Perspective | A stay-at-home mom’s work is worthy of respect — including from herself 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z She hadn’t excelled at motherhood first time round, so why would she play grandma? My son was diagnosed with autism at five. Did he inherit it from my misunderstood mother? 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z In “She Bad: Tales of Love, Hate and Baby Motherhood,” culture critic Jamilah Lemieux plans to offer up a part memoir, part manifesto on both Black motherhood and a single motherhood. Perspective | Down on 2023? We get it. But here are some things that might improve. 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z She was keenly observant of the ambivalences of domesticity and of motherhood. Rozsika Parker obituary 2010-11-21T18:54:00Z In “Better Things,” Sam is a superbly capable parent, but her scrappy, unsentimental style also serves as a corrective to C.K.’s idealized view of motherhood. “Better Things,” Pamela Adlon’s Unlikely Ode to Single Motherhood 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Stack includes an epigraph from Adrienne Rich: “The experience of motherhood was eventually to radicalize me.” Domestic Confidential: What Happens When a New Mother’s Home Becomes a ‘Job Site’ 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Like almost every other woman I know, I used to see motherhood as the consolation prize for women who couldn’t cut it in the workplace. Should women really be rushing back to work after giving birth? 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Many loathe the modern rebranding of motherhood, yet few openly regret having become parents. ‘It's the breaking of a taboo’: the parents who regret having children 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Bure took a few minutes to discuss everything from motherhood to her faith to, of course, returning to television as D.J. Candace Cameron Bure Talks 'Fuller House' and 'The View' 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Actress Andrea Savage was sick of the two-dimensional mom roles she was being pitched, so she created her own show that depicts motherhood how it really is: hilarious, difficult and a little raunchy. Andrea Savage on "I'm Sorry" season 2: "Your whole life turns to s**t when your kid learns to read" 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z “Look at me,” the author of every new book on motherhood asks us. In a Raft of New Books, Motherhood From (Almost) Every Angle 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z He defined female life in terms of motherhood, or the failure to become a mother. The foul reign of the biological clock | Moira Weigel 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z It’s nothing weird to be a workaholic professional—older than the others in this quartet—devoted to her job, yet eager for motherhood, even without a mate, before it’s too late! Review: 'How to Be Single' Fails to Find the Joy in Singledom 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Then a female friend told me about having had some of her eggs frozen a couple of years ago, an option increasingly considered by women in their 20s and 30s who want to defer motherhood. Diary of a Sperm Banker 2014-04-04T22:42:40Z Implied in her accusations, through the demeaning language she uses to describe involved motherhood, is that young women are turning their backs not just on sex but on feminism itself. Motherlode: Choosing Motherhood Over Sex? 2011-07-12T15:15:13Z Some four—or is it 12?—interlocking tales of moms and their kids fetishize motherhood in the most egregious ways imaginable. Review: You Wouldn't Wish Mother's Day on Your Worst Enemy 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z "The Emperor's New Clothes" is a stunning and brutally honest exploration of someone working through how to juggle new motherhood, a cagey significant other and career pressures. The top 15 modern rock #1 hits that actually stand the test of time 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z A very full lifetime’s worth of experiences are recorded and re-envisioned in this poem: marriage, motherhood and divorce are dealt with many times. Ben Lerner considers the hatred of poetry; Marie Ponsot celebrates its joys 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z She creates an uncommonly candid portrait of frustrated motherhood, even while deconstructing the art of memoir with all its contradictory potential to reveal and disguise. The trouble with the bad mother memoir 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Married and in her 40s, she decides it’s time to consciously grapple with the pros and cons of motherhood. ‘To Kid or Not to Kid’ Review: Maybe, Baby 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Her unrealistic approach to motherhood fuses guilt with innocence and hope with determined rectitude. Time of Our Lives, the Years That Made Us - TV review 2013-06-23T22:18:00Z She used her experiences as a mother to write "Of Woman Born," her ground-breaking feminist critique of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood, published in 1976. Adrienne Rich, feminist poet and essayist, dies 2012-03-28T22:34:09Z It sounded like a terrible deal: all the stress and anxiety without the substance of motherhood. Going it alone: why I chose single motherhood 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z It turned out that Seattle motherhood had its own rules, on matters both big and small. Motherlode: Parenting By Zip Code 2011-05-25T15:23:47Z I’m in Year 11 of motherhood, and I feel I’ve witnessed modern parenting change right before my eyes. When anti-violence backfires 2012-06-02T15:00:00Z Her desire to leave her urban life behind is also motivated by stark need: five months pregnant, and preparing for single motherhood, she needs a job that comes with health insurance. | 'How the World Began': Catherine Trieschmann?s ?How the World Began? - Review 2012-01-09T03:01:00Z If the notion of motherhood comes into view, for example, we are off on how every mother has appeared in Bellow’s oeuvre. Review: Zachary Leader’s ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964’ 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z They were starting work on a musical about motherhood inspired by Ms. Orling’s own experience. Taking Your Child to Work, When Your Job Is Making Theater 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z In this exaggerated burlesque performance, motherhood is analogized to prison, or the feeling of a child’s scooter wheel repeatedly hitting you in the ankle bone for all eternity. When Motherhood Is a Horror Show 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Rather than nudging readers to mock, which is easy, the author reminds them instead to remember that the maddest-sounding ideas sometimes become motherhood. Short-lived, much loved 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z I have a great appreciation for that — I think in part because of what I got to learn and experience in telling Michelle's story about her struggles with how to balance work and motherhood. Director of HBO's Golden State Killer docuseries on its sequel: “The struggle is the story” 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z Set in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, New Orleans and finally Baltimore, the 125 pieces evoke changes in social milieu and way of life, from Bohemianism and drug use to motherhood, widowhood and purpose. Review | In these new audiobooks, great tales are matched with great narrators 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Her unusually sophisticated upbringing did nothing to prepare her for the stultifying demands of traditional motherhood. Review | Decades after his mother’s disappearance, a man searches the past for clues 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Her real challenge is going to be coping with the way the nation projects its ideas about pregnancy and motherhood onto famous high-achieving women. Marissa Mayer’s new job 2012-07-17T23:13:00Z The New York Times said the trend was part of “the politicizing of TV’s prime-time comedy,” along with “Murphy Brown” reacting to Vice President Dan Quayle’s criticism of the protagonist’s single motherhood. How ‘A Different World’ dealt with the L.A. riots and set the stage for a more political TV 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z "Red," her first solo exhibit in Seattle, contemplates the female presence in Islamic society, with a special emphasis on the role of motherhood. Review: Seattle sculptor Humaira Abid blends dazzling craft, potent content in 'Red' 2011-04-07T19:31:11Z You wrote a lot about motherhood in your book, including your breakdown at the end of Children’s Day at Danbury. Orange is the New Black” author: Prison wastes time, human potential and money 2013-09-06T23:00:00Z Although marketing for the film adaptation focuses on the mystery aspect, “The Girl on the Train” is really a study of three broken women, particularly how the pressures of motherhood warp their psyches. How ‘The Girl on the Train’ tries to go deeper than your average mystery thriller 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Her two new films deal with motherhood gone wrong. Charlotte Gainsbourg: 'I'm always looking for what will make me feel bad' 2011-08-05T18:59:01Z By coincidence, after decades of marriage and motherhood in Boston’s crowded suburbs, I’d wound up in circumstances that allowed me to put myself — to the extent possible — in the mind of the reclusive poet. Reviving Emily Dickinson in 10 Episodes 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z I will not support movies that do not portray the full spectrum and true diversity of the motherhood experience. Motherlode Blog: Hollywood to Black Mothers: Stay Home 2012-06-19T01:02:47Z That was the other reason I was a little reticent about writing about motherhood and fatherhood. Book Talk: A parenting journey as father-turned-mother 2013-07-25T14:15:16Z Yet as Halla teeters between motherhood and vandalism — between creation and destruction — her embrace of the natural world intensifies. ‘Woman at War’ Review: Industrial Blight as Icelandic Fable 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Here’s what we know: at an Emmy For Your Consideration panel in Los Angeles earlier this month, show creator Jenji Kohan would say only that season three themes include faith and motherhood. "Orange Is The New Black" Returns June 12: Season 3 Teasers & Emmy Chances 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z AP: “The Lost Daughter” shows a complicated, uncertain side of motherhood rarely seen in movies. Q&A: Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley on sharing Leda 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z The story spliced together marriage, motherhood and space travel to breed a hybrid of romantic comedy and scientific reverie. ‘How to Tell Toledo From the Night Sky,’ by Lydia Netzer With a subject is something as elemental and visceral as motherhood, this seems the wrong choice. About a (Bad) Boy 2011-12-08T13:15:55Z “Brotherhood” isn’t just a parody of Irish-American tributes to sacred motherhood; it also holds on to the misty-eyed piety of its prototype. | 'Johnny Baseball': Babe Ruth Sings at American Repertory Theater 2010-06-09T21:49:00Z SUN Explore motherhood in nature and see mother and baby otters, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Community calendar 2012-05-09T22:07:04Z She adds, "This is perhaps why wine is sometimes called 'mommy juice.' A toddlerfied way to acknowledge the difficulties of motherhood without actually acknowledging the alcohol." Where are the "wine dads"? How gendered alcohol merchandise speaks to inequity in domestic labor 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z Coming to motherhood late has made me sense my own mortality more strongly, but also made me feel more alive than ever. The agony and ecstasy of becoming an older mother 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Let's try pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood for a while! From “Evil Dead Rise” to “Clock,” motherhood is horror, but how we talk about it is worse 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z On display in the museum’s third floor Ancient Egyptian Art galleries, the piece is a meditation on fundamental human connections — sisterhood, motherhood, aging — across time. Bliss and Anger in Balance: The Art of Lorraine O’Grady 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Unfortunately for my children, who’d probably be just as happy to stay home, that reason is what keeps me slogging through the less glamorous parts of motherhood. Journeys: An Israeli Oasis as a Passage to Ancient Times 2010-09-12T08:01:00Z I saw the most depressing “motherhood” meme recently. Avoid playgrounds and eat the last biscuit: how to keep your sense of self as a parent 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z Many thanks for sharing and exposing a true slice of motherhood. Letters: Letters to the Travel Editor 2012-05-20T06:48:08Z She's a onetime punk rocker, emotionally stranded in new motherhood, a stalling marriage and la-di-da suburbia. 'Kelly & Cal' a solid but overreaching tale of outsiders 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z She’s a beautiful woman and continues to look beautiful throughout the movie, but the trials of motherhood surface on her face. Forget the Boy: Watching Patricia Arquette Age in Boyhood Is Astounding 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z It described Barrymore as "being unstable in her relationships" and quoted her as saying that motherhood was "the most important role" of her life. EgyptAir pulls magazine after bizarre Drew Barrymore article 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Of course, such froth generally didn’t include copious references to the Holocaust and grave considerations of the ethics of surrogate motherhood. Review: ‘Legacy,’ an Uneasy Comedy of Morals at Williamstown Festival 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z The movies that truly understand motherhood Another Mother's Day, another screening of "Terms of Endearment," right? The movies that truly understand motherhood 2011-05-06T23:30:00Z For the Motherlode Book Club, I’ve asked two women, at different crucial junctures of career and family, to read “The Conflict” and consider whether it influences their coming decisions about how to manage motherhood. Motherlode Blog: Motherlode Book Club: Elisabeth Badinter's The Conflict. Has Motherhood Replaced Sexism in Oppressing Women? 2012-04-13T20:14:05Z This sudden “discovery” of single motherhood is yet another example. Christopher Columbus Syndrome strikes again: No, white women did not “discover” single motherhood 2014-04-25T16:30:00Z For every woman that whispered a recipe for ginger tea, there was one ready to tell me I was already failing at motherhood — before the baby was even born. Motherlode Blog: Parenting Reading for Back to School 2011-09-06T18:00:47Z The dream of motherhood that was planted in my heart before I was born was at last, taking seed. Swiping right in the fertility doctor's office: On pursuing romance and single motherhood at once 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z But for the moment, she is preoccupied with the first weeks of motherhood. | Marine Vacth, the Frequently Unclothed Star of François Ozon’s ‘Young and Beautiful’ 2014-04-22T16:39:04Z I loved talking to Annie about photography, motherhood and the creative process. Our Favorite Arts Photos of 2021 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Bridget is ambivalent about having given up the practice of law for motherhood; Mark works punishingly long hours as a web designer; and Julie’s just a cute kid. Anne Rice's 'Prince Lestat,' and More 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z We’ve rounded up new collections, including the annual Best American Poetry series, a bilingual volume of intimacy and activism, and works on Black queerness and motherhood. Newly Published, From the Vanderbilt Family to the Former PepsiCo CEO 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z True women’s writing, she believes, concerns itself “with what is eternal and unvarying, with domesticity and motherhood and family life.” Rachel Cusk Said She Was Done With Autobiography. These Essays Suggest Otherwise. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z "Almost Lover" is a daring mix of play-acting and real feelings about dating and single motherhood. Concert preview: Seattle singer JusMoni at Chop Suey 12/22/10 2010-12-15T19:46:05Z PPD typically arises from a combination of hormonal changes, psychological adjustments to motherhood and fatigue, said US researchers. Postnatal depression less likely after winter or spring births 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z She took inspiration from Toni Morrison, who once described motherhood as “the most liberating thing that ever happened to me.” Excellence Runs in the Family. Her Novel’s Heroine Wants Something Else. 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z You’ve added to our already rampant cultural dismissal of motherhood as a kooky cult. Internet doomsday, explained 2012-05-16T11:45:00Z It perhaps overstates the case to say that modern feminism shuns motherhood – especially since so many of its proponents are themselves mothers. Michelle Obama: The one woman in America who actually has it all 2013-12-05T19:26:00Z The characters “navigate motherhood, ambition and intimacy, and help each other discover their own independence.” Laura Linney to Return to Broadway in New David Auburn Play 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z The sacred vows of motherhood are debased in several of the best films in MOMA’s series, including “My Name Is Julia Ross,” a terrifyingly claustrophobic drama by the audacious stylist Joseph H. Lewis, from 1945. Richard Brody: Women Onscreen in Two Film-Noir Retrospectives 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z She is writing a memoir about motherhood, daughterhood and the mess in between. Motherlode Blog: The 13-Page Preschool Application 2014-02-11T20:37:14Z Nick Hornby is the undisputed king of lad-lit; now his sister Gill is set to make her literary debut with The Hive, a novel about female friendship, motherhood and one-upmanship at the school gates. 2013 books preview: Jane Austen gets tough, The Shining revisited and Boyd takes on Bond 2012-12-30T20:37:01Z Just as you won’t lie to me and say there’s nothing fulfilling about motherhood.” ‘All my friends had some nightmare experience trying to get pregnant. My story took the cake’ 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Has motherhood made her writing life harder or easier? Nicole Krauss: 'I take great pleasure in thinking' 2011-02-13T00:05:00Z While the single hinted at a superficial sentiment, Gangsta Boo said in an interview with HipHop DX in 2014 that it also touched on the pressures of motherhood and raising a child. Gangsta Boo, Memphis Rapper Formerly With Three 6 Mafia, Dies at 43 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z Separated from their father, compelled by her effortful ascent into the literary world, she inhabits the rackety motherhood of the compartmentalized woman, by turns abandoning, remorseful, selfish, valiant and plagued with guilt. ‘The Story of the Lost Child,’ by Elena Ferrante 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z As in most fields, the timing of motherhood and balancing its demands are added hurdles. Female Cinematographers, Not Content to Hide Behind the Camera 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z "My earlier novels were, at heart, tales of fatherhood and motherhood," Mr. Hosseini said in a statement released by Riverhead, a division of Penguin. ArtsBeat: Khaled Hosseini Plans New Novel Next May 2012-10-29T19:14:36Z Plenty of ridiculous, retro speculation about how her 34 year-old daughter’s impending motherhood will affect Hillary Clinton’s career prospects. Hillary Clinton won’t be “President Nana” 2014-04-18T14:14:00Z In the interstices between work and motherhood, she began turning her short story into “The Bluest Eye.” Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Regretting Motherhood: A Sociopolitical Analysis comprised interviews with 23 anonymous Israeli women sharing their regrets about having children, and the extreme social pressure they felt, whether or not they were cut out for motherhood. ‘It's the breaking of a taboo’: the parents who regret having children 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Much of the show suggests an ambivalence — angry, funny, raucous, witchy — toward pregnancy and motherhood and the lived reality of the female body. Making a Meal of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z As much as she’s enjoyed portraying moms, she said she’d really like to get her hands dirty embodying women whose motherhood is “not the focus of the story.” Deirdre O’Connell, Theater’s Master of the Melancholy Mom 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z A study at the University of Toronto recently determined that the so-called “motherhood penalty” — the idea that moms are penalized at work — applies to men, too, only worse. The Brotherhood of the Stay-at-Home Dad 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z For Debbie, being in Vegas means choosing career over motherhood, the tug-of-war every working mother faces. What "GLOW" season 3 reveals about the working woman's gamble 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Arenas were already waiting for Adele after “21,” but her throat problems and then motherhood kept her from touring. Adele Arrives in an Arena at Last 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z “Between them they have conspired to confound accepted categories and notions — including my own — of identity and gender, nationhood and patriotism, faith, family, motherhood, death — and love itself.” After a 20-Year Hiatus, the Booker Prize-Winning Novelist Arundhati Roy Returns to Fiction 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z There are a lot of goodbyes in this book — to family, to California, to ideas about motherhood, to my belief that my life would look much like my parents' or grandparents'. "Dear Damage" author on when your family's tragedy makes headlines 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z This season’s lineup includes tuners devoted to topics such as the Berlin Wall, motherhood, the Freedom Riders and Matthew McConaughey. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z He or she could be the first domino that eventually changes where you want your career to go or could have needs that make philosophical ruminations on motherhood a luxury you can’t afford. Ambivalent about motherhood and wondering whether she’ll get over it 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The banality of anxiety in motherhood is what makes it so dangerous, especially in a world so filled with fear. Is Fear the Last Taboo of American Motherhood? 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z See More » This season has dabbled at substance with the disinterest of a dilettante: Vampirism as a metaphor for AIDS, fame as a sort of death, motherhood as infection. ‘American Horror Story’ Season 5, Episode 11: Hotel California 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z I was realistic about how kids would change my life — no more late nights, going broke paying for day care — but I was shellshocked to learn how spiritually, emotionally and physically hard motherhood would be. The ugly, exhausting reality of parenting, and why we hide it from our children 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z I had been fueling my life — overwhelmed with young, unexpected motherhood and school and waitressing jobs and a career as a reporter and a husband with whom I shared an incendiary, juvenile relationship — with pills. Sins of the mother: I blame myself for my son's overdose 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z She used her experiences as a mother to write “Of Woman Born,” her ground-breaking feminist critique of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood, published in 1976. Adrienne Rich, Feminist Poet and Essayist, Dies 2012-03-28T22:26:45Z It’s about trying to get rid of the glorified, unreal and, for my taste, boring view of motherhood which has been part of general western culture.” Hollywood must drop fixation wih beauty, says Night Manager director 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z “Whatever our beliefs, we are parents first. Welcome to the sisterhood of motherhood.” Similac and Mayim Bialik are both wrong about the breastfeeding “mom wars” 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z In forming her identity Adèle dismisses the traditional ingredients — gender, race, job, class, motherhood — and focuses entirely on her ability to maintain a hidden life. In ‘Adèle,’ a Young Woman Pounds Champagne, Spurns Hermès and Destroys Lives 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z I always knew my mother loved me, but I also knew just as surely that there were moments, hours, days, when she could hardly cope with her own life, much less motherhood. Is motherhood causing my depression? 2013-02-25T23:30:00Z She found the demands of motherhood and marriage exasperating. 7 female artists you don’t know — but should 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z And it can also be hard for women who don’t have children, in this season of constant reminders that the best and most important “job” a woman could ever aspire to is motherhood. Sorry about Mother’s Day, my childfree girlfriends: Moms aren’t any more special (or unselfish) than you 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Speaking of perspective, I ask whether motherhood has diluted Davis's sick sense of humour and she scoffs. Dark star: Julia Davis 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z In the world of motherhood this is particularly important as so many of us go around with our ‘sunshine and roses’ masks and are really unhappy with our day-to-day lives. Does Mommy Blogging Exploit Kids? 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z In the period of overwhelming motherhood that I’m writing about in “A Love Story,” the boundaries between bodies fail. This Week in Fiction: Samantha Hunt on the Unspoken Terrors of Being a New Mother 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z And some liberals and feminists consider surrogate motherhood an exploitation of poor working women by the rich. France Debates Gay Marriage 2013-02-01T21:10:09Z For far too long has the anti-choice movement vilified those who seek abortions, raising the specter of "bad motherhood" over women like me. A love letter to Roe and my first pregnancy 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z Together, these spirits join forces in an unsettling and moving film about motherhood and bad memories, one that won’t so much grab you by the throat as squeeze your hand. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z Her ad positions motherhood as its own form of qualifying toughness, and childbirth as the original flex. Perspective | Why a pro-abortion-rights candidate ran an ad where she gives birth 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z “Over the years, Mormon women have felt — I would personally say a backlash is too strong a word, I would say, some friction, about their role in motherhood.” But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z However, many female saints were not mothers, and Jane’s obligations of faith versus those of motherhood become the central tension of the novel. Welcome to the Family. Good Luck Fitting In. 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Like other singers who were eager to speak about pregnancy and motherhood in opera, Cooke asked me not to name the companies that canceled her contracts. What Opera Singers Gained, and Lost, Performing While Pregnant 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z While these books are satisfying for maternal Id, rarely is the ambivalence of everyday motherhood so dark. The bad mother’s last refuge: Smashing the cult of mommyhood 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z We learn about the ancient world’s view of motherhood as a source of power, inextricably bound with war, death and famine. Is Fear the Last Taboo of American Motherhood? 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z After our babies were born, I moved across the country and focused on new motherhood, a new city and a new job. Why Is My Uncle So Mad About Student Debt Forgiveness? 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z It’s about the stresses of motherhood, and it’s about suburban conformity, and it sees both of those through the filter of race. Review: ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ Ignites Over Race and Class 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z In eight brief chapters, Otsuka follows the women from their moment of arrival through their marriages, motherhood and early middle-age, leading up to the outbreak of World War II and the internment-camp era. Julie Otsuka's novel of Japanese picture brides 2011-09-15T19:18:04Z She regains her health overnight, and the tale ends, for both sisters, in contentment and motherhood. Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti 2012-06-25T11:57:22Z Hathaway has been brought on board to shed a spotlight on what UN Women executive director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka described in a statement as the “motherhood penalty”. Anne Hathaway appointed as latest UN women's goodwill ambassador 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, I monitored my basal body temperature, weighing motherhood against the seriousness of our courtship. Swiping right in the fertility doctor's office: On pursuing romance and single motherhood at once 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z And so far it appears that even in an act of terrible infamy, a woman will still always be defined by her motherhood. Yes, Tashfeen Malik was a mother — but obsessing over how she could “leave a 6-month-old” to kill is absurd 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z By the time Lopez walked away from the limelight to focus on motherhood and her marriage to Marc Anthony, the limelight had already walked away from her. The search for Jennifer Lopez's lost booty 2010-04-23T00:30:00Z Rachel Cusk's account of becoming a mother caused outrage on publication because of its frankness about the loss of freedom that accompanies motherhood. Eleanor Birne's top 10 books on motherhood 2011-03-30T15:44:16Z When we were together at the Anguilla Lit Fest we chatted about motherhood — about writing and mothering and the specific challenges of this occupation. Bernice McFadden: Racism in publishing “is often quite blatant” 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z The gains were beautiful, too, don’t get me wrong, but both of your hands are full in motherhood: There is sacrifice and loss and death, and there is birth and beauty and fullness. Jennifer Nettles Had Sung ‘She Used to Be Mine.’ But Not While Crying. 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z And the film does a perfectly fine job of depicting the struggles and trade-offs of real world motherhood. Do you really want to end the “Mommy Wars?” Stop buying into what these commercials are selling 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z After all, I burst into motherhood with an unwanted drug-free delivery. Breast-feeding is hell 2013-05-27T01:00:00Z There's a clear sense that Joan is ambivalent about motherhood, that like virtually every parent the world over, she genuinely loves her child but occasionally longs to escape the endless obligations he requires. 'Mad Men' recap: The vision thing 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z “This is a classic record that people will grow with. And motherhood doesn’t mean you can’t make the best punk rock of your life.” After 15 Years, the Nashville Punks Be Your Own Pet Are Roaring Back 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Dupre is setting up a maternity lingerie business and credits motherhood with catalysing her ambition and sense of purpose. Growing up fast: why parenting in your 20s is the new punk 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The pressures of balancing work and motherhood are typically enough to fill several films, and that's without the mom also being a world-class assassin. Netflix's "Kill Boksoon" slays with a sharp, stylish take on an assassin balancing work & parenting 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Surrounded by women celebrating motherhood sharpens the sorrow and heightens the sense of not belonging. Motherlode Blog: It's Not That I Don't Want Children. Exactly. 2012-05-06T14:06:12Z She wrote her first books, mainly romances, while juggling the demands of early motherhood and using the pen name Lois Kerry. Lois Duncan, whose suspense novels held teen readers spellbound, dies at 82 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z In James Cameron’s “Aliens” sequel, motherhood becomes a defining theme, a novel and striking choice for an action film. Hollywood’s gender-swapping problem: It looks like progress for actresses — but women of color are still mostly shut out 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z She wonders "why I ever expected motherhood to complete me rather than lay waste to me." Jillian Lauren's new memoir captures the joys and sorrows of adoption 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z “It’s a mad clash of all areas of my life piling on top of each other in this surreal cocktail of motherhood and career -- but its been grounding,” she said. Oscars 2015: Marion Cotillard a surprise in lead actress category 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z "It would be years before women on TV and films could openly struggle," writes Elena Nicolaou in a Refinery 29 piece about TV single motherhood. "Sweet Magnolias" is full of single moms – too bad it misses what solo parenting is really like 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z In that sense, Watkins has merely given full voice to the sudden disorientation of motherhood, which is so often muffled beneath a crocheted bunny blanket of sentimentality. Review | Claire Vaye Watkins’s new novel approaches motherhood — with a torch 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z The writing about motherhood in these books is never sugar-coated; Ferrante's depiction of a woman's inner life is raw, churning and true. 'The Story of the Lost Child' is a masterful conclusion to Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z It’s hard not to see such frank talk as a result of motherhood, even before Beyoncé sings, “I’m not feeling like myself since the baby” on “Mine”. Beyoncé Reviewed: One of Pop Music’s Most Important Moments 2013-12-16T16:28:45Z And nothing grounds this story so firmly as its exploration of the various agonies of motherhood. ‘No One Is Coming to Save Us’: ‘Gatsby’ gets a revolutionary reboot 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z She is relishing marriage and motherhood — “We are happy as clams,” she said — and works only when she wants to. Summer Movies: Julia Roberts, Enjoying Life and ?Eat Pray Love? 2010-04-29T14:37:00Z And, importantly, as more and more women are relying on vitrification to postpone motherhood, are they aware of the risks of putting all your eggs in one very cold basket? We need to talk about egg freezing 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z Not so in the five season 2 episodes provided for review, which immediately slice into issues surrounding black single motherhood, white allyship and yes, privilege — class and economic, not merely racial. "The Last O.G." thrives in its tastier second season 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Well, who knew the scientific link between motherhood and singing ability? An opera singer’s backlash wasn’t just sexism 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z They claimed sexual freedom, serial partners, single motherhood — or opted out of motherhood entirely. An Exhilarating Work of History About Daring Adventures in Love 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z But it wasn't easy for you to juggle your marriage, motherhood and "Murphy Brown." Candice Bergen offers a second memoir, 'A Fine Romance' 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z With titles such as “How I Trapped Your Father” and “Hustle and Pho,” each chapter is an extended essay that reflects on dating, career sacrifices, Asian American identity, motherhood, and other formative life experiences. Comedian Ali Wong's book "Dear Girls" tells a magical, raunchy love story 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The motherhood aspect of the role was a particularity important touchstone: Berry gave birth last October to her son Maceo. Halle Berry launches into a new era of control with CBS' 'Extant' 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z But much of the prose is powerful, and the story braves themes—the mundanities of single motherhood, the sexual fantasies and frustrations of young women—that still feel underrepresented in contemporary fiction. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z “What happened over the next few years I couldn’t have imagined in my worst nightmares. I felt like I was in a plot in a crime book, where the woman is being suffocated by motherhood.” ‘It's the breaking of a taboo’: the parents who regret having children 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z I’ve written a lot about motherhood: essays, reading lists, book reviews, my first book. Michelle Orange Tackles a Writerly Taboo: Her Mother 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Chen, who will remain a contributor to "Early Show" and host of CBS' "Big Brother," said the show will be a discussion of motherhood and more. CBS daytime show aims to be 'The Talk' of the town 2010-07-28T21:07:00Z The internet is abuzz with people blasting Mayer for underestimating the challenges of motherhood. Do Marissa Mayer's maternity plans make her a fit role model for women? 2012-07-21T23:05:56Z At first glance, the poem might seem sentimental, its moral too sweet an image of self-effacing Victorian motherhood for modern taste. Poem of the week: Time's Acquittal by Sara Coleridge 2011-01-10T10:49:35Z But since she is not letting motherhood hijack her goals, she is busier than many. ‘Jane the Virgin’ Season 2, Episode 4: Your Roaring Twenties 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z While I tried to warm to the idea of motherhood, nature resolved the situation in the form of a miscarriage. Perspective | The abortions we didn’t have 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z And yeah, motherhood is broadening and humbling and all that, but so are other experiences, ones that having children might well get in the way of. Motherhood isn’t the path to enlightenment for all women 2013-01-24T21:10:00Z The show’s entire premise has hinged on a titular character who was the result of an unplanned teenage pregnancy, grappling with her own spectacularly unplanned pregnancy and motherhood. TV’s 10 best abortion moments of 2016 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z Afterwards, when I was confident enough to share, I put pictures of labour and the placenta on my Instagram page which I describe as radicalising motherhood; encouraging other women to own their journeys. Experience: I had a free birth 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Over cosmos in their private bar, Charlotte and Miranda commiserate about the hardships of motherhood and then raise their glasses to moms who “don’t have help,” by which they mean paid servants. | 'Sex and the City 2': Sarah Jessica Parker, Flying Down to Abu Dhabi 2010-05-26T20:10:00Z “I felt compelled to look closely, ritualistically, again and again, at the nearly impenetrable, seamless construction of stereotypes surrounding childhood, girlhood, motherhood and womanhood.” A Photographer's Search for the Meaning of Womanhood in White, Blue-Collar America 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z But now that single motherhood and government assistance are part of the trend, it’s more painful. Christopher Columbus Syndrome strikes again: No, white women did not “discover” single motherhood 2014-04-25T16:30:00Z But this is still a remarkable play that starts out by exposing the grubby chicanery of professional football and ends by revealing the terrifying power of English working-class motherhood. The Game 2010-09-26T20:29:00Z But Lessing’s life, like her fiction, suggests that motherhood is nothing if not a series of impossible choices: between political struggle and parenting, between parenting and personal fulfillment. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z "The 'motherhood penalty' ... is a particularly insidious demonstration of gender inequality in the workplace," Mlambo-Ngucka said Wednesday. Actress Anne Hathaway named goodwill ambassador for UN Women 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Lepucki’s witty lines arrive as dependably as afternoon playtime, but her reflection on motherhood and women’s friendships is deadly serious. The trouble with the bad mother memoir 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Because, let’s be clear, motherhood is a job. “I Was Never Really the Ingénue”: An Interview with Judith Light 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z Their show went deeper, beyond assumptions about age, ethnicity, gender and motherhood. Review | J-Lo and Shakira shake off boundaries, put on a ferocious master dance class at the Super Bowl 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z When it’s understood that motherhood and everything else in a woman’s life and career are not at odds. Olympic moms have it all! 2012-07-31T15:15:00Z Focusing on the darker side of giving birth might seem at odds with the giddy cult of motherhood in popular culture. Television: ... And Baby Makes Reality TV 2011-01-21T17:40:59Z “We aren’t all magical vessels,” is the unofficial catchphrase to this long-running conversational show, referring to the toxic myth that new motherhood should be a, natural and seamless transition for every woman. 7 Podcasts for Parents Who Need a Break 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Rhetoric about motherhood as an essential part of women’s lives can be found across the political spectrum. Women Who Said No to Motherhood 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z In the September issue last year, Beyoncé addressed a wide range of topics, among them motherhood, body image, ancestry and diversity. Vogue Beyoncé Portrait Heading to Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Many may decide that undoing the “motherhood penalty” in the workplace is too hard. Is the gender revolution over? 2013-04-02T18:07:00Z Fitzgerald told Fox News Digital that motherhood and reports on American life expectancy going down inspired her to study biological aging. How to reverse your biological age and feel younger without spending a fortune 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z How did you strike the balance between realism and more issue-driven themes, like single motherhood and women’s health and aging? Pamela Adlon Wanted ‘Better Things’ to End With a ‘Sense of Hope’ 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z She published a handful of early stories, but eventually suspended her literary aspirations to face the quotidian demands of farm life and motherhood. Mary Ward Brown, 95, Award-Winning Short Story Writer, Dies 2013-05-22T22:29:16Z Importantly, underneath the shiny surface, both “Lululemons” and “Prada” are exploring what it’s like to be a woman buffeted by conflicting messages about career, relationships and motherhood. Review | ‘When Life Gives You Lululemons’ is a delicious sequel to ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z The subtext of “Girl on Fire,” full of collaborations with other singer-songwriters, is that marriage and motherhood have given her new freedom, confidence and momentum. New Music: Kid Rock’s ‘Rebel Soul,’ and Alicia Keys’s ‘Girl on Fire’ 2012-11-26T23:07:45Z Back then, I consoled myself by reading Adrienne Rich’s fabulous Of Woman Born and decided that this was the only guide to motherhood I needed. Lessons in love from my new teenage foster daughter 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z Perhaps this is why working women are inducted into motherhood being warned that we will never feel like good enough moms or good enough professionals. What's Wrong with the Mommy Track? 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z If nothing else, seeing your name on my bank statement reassures me of the power of motherhood, the honour, the sacrifice. A letter to… my ex’s partner, who understands 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z Researchers refer to this guilt-inducing trope of perfectionism as the motherhood myth or the goddess myth, though I believe it applies to fathers as well. Perspective | Parental guilt is a cultural epidemic. It’s time to let go of who we ‘should’ be. 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z It is this basic identity that new motherhood would destroy. The everyday trauma of childbirth made me stop at one child 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z I don’t think the world Heidi dreams for her daughter as the curtain falls is a world in which women choosing single motherhood is so common that no one bats an eye. Gina Gionfriddo on ‘Rapture, Blister, Burn’ and Wasserstein 2012-06-10T04:00:34Z In Felicity’s mind, did she do something at odds with her theory of motherhood, or was the alleged scamming an extension of it? Perspective | Where is William H. Macy in the college admissions scandal? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Neni, balancing motherhood and her dreams of becoming a pharmacist, is particularly appealing; she thrums on the page, full of complexity and yearning. An Immigrant Family Encounter the 1 Percent in a Debut Novel 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z There is institutional sexism, conscious and unconscious, as well as motherhood. How today's female directors broke out of 'movie jail' 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z The only really difficult thing about juggling motherhood and pop stardom, she says, is lack of sleep. Sophie Ellis Bextor at Jacques Townhouse 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z The road to motherhood wasn't an easy one for the 38-year-old E! Giuliana Rancic: Motherhood brings tears of joy 2012-09-20T21:31:05Z But in the end it’s not an abortion she chooses but single motherhood, a train ticket to Berlin and a chance to build a life on her own terms. How a Grandmother’s Diary Led to a Long-Lost Literary Gem 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z With so much focus on motherhood, does Rossellini have a message for "Mammas" viewers? 'Mammas' is study in maternal instinct 2013-05-07T12:51:08Z Brandi Carlile, “By the Way, I Forgive You” Our hometown girl hits a midcareer high with her weighty sixth studio album, tackling death, her struggle adjusting to motherhood and, as the title suggests, forgiveness. The 17 best Seattle-area albums of the year (so far) 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z This is particularly irksome as the complexities of being a parent are themes that Cameron has explored brilliantly in the past – motherhood in "Aliens" and fatherhood in "Terminator 2." "Avatar: The Way of the Water": Tired climate clichés distract from James Cameron’s vision 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z They had a daughter, Suzanne, but Leigh found the marriage “just another role in an interminable play,” Galloway writes, and “motherhood a repeat performance without the benefit of good writing.” Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier’s Turbulent Relationship, Retold With Compassion 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z She began writing emails to friends, which became a blog about motherhood, with subjects like body image, her struggle with postpartum depression and her desire for something more mixed in. Kate Baer Is Speaking Truth. From Her Minivan. 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z Her place in pop music held steady as she retreated from the spotlight, toward a more nourishing life that includes motherhood. Review: Adele Holds Firm on ‘25,’ Even as Pop Shifts 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z The conflicted, occasionally dispassionate way she describes her relationship to motherhood stands in opposition to Teen Shauna’s desperation. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap: Little One 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Ms. Noble says she believes that received ideas about how motherhood should be a desire of all women are largely influenced by patriarchal and religious ideology adhering to rigid gender roles. Women Who Said No to Motherhood 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Single motherhood is still stigmatized, though a lot less than it used to be. How the Christian right perverts adoption 2013-05-04T21:00:00Z On this night in mid-June in front of a sold-out crowd in Washington, with her husband and daughter home in Los Angeles, Wong describes how motherhood is treating her by talking about her infant daughter. Meet Ali Wong, comedy’s newest star, who filmed her breakthrough special while 30-some weeks pregnant 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z The maternal script is changing ever more rapidly now, as each generation of more empowered and more powerful women writes its own lines for motherhood. What a mother should be 2013-05-12T10:00:00Z The bonds of motherhood are deep and tenuous. Review | In Gabriela Garcia’s ‘Of Women and Salt,’ five generations of mothers and daughters fight to stay afloat 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Nor would single motherhood — her daughter, Lulu, 39, is her best friend. Betsey Johnson: A Role Model, Still 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Fear is what she calls “the last major taboo of American motherhood.” Is Fear the Last Taboo of American Motherhood? 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z “And her show today I think is very positive, its very realistic in terms of showing what single motherhood really is,” Palin said. Sarah Palin: “Haters are going to hate” 2012-07-25T16:30:00Z Her life is airless, packed with stultifying tasks: “Japanese motherhood and its attendant housewifery is a cult,” says Mizuki. In Tokyo, a Trapped Wife Seeks Excitement 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z She is the sort of tightly wound person motherhood has only somewhat unraveled; when she offers Ashling the job, it comes with a stack of guidelines as thick as a novella. ‘Lucy’ Review: There’s Something About the Babysitter 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z The literature of motherhood often features a stark, and possibly false, choice. In Rumaan Alam’s New Novel, Motherhood Lit Tackles Race, Adoption, and White Privilege 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z And hoo boy do we denigrate women who opt out of motherhood entirely. Betty Friedan started a revolution — and we’re still not there yet 2013-02-13T21:15:00Z It would be a long time before Christina could enjoy a similar level of intimacy, yet she was never discouraged by the countless trials that accompanied her slow journey to motherhood. Now we are three: me, my daughter and my new fiancee 2013-07-20T08:00:00Z Sitting in the anodyne conference room before he arrived, talk turned to motherhood. Making ‘Mother!,’ the Year’s Most Divisive Film 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z But in the gray area is where most motherhood and pregnancy experiences — and the most interesting stories — actually lie. From “Evil Dead Rise” to “Clock,” motherhood is horror, but how we talk about it is worse 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z But she did implore the congregation to “help women to make good choices about motherhood, to make good choices about their bodies, to make good choices about their families.” Why some Black churches aren’t elated about the possible end of Roe 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z “I lost myself in motherhood, marriage and the business,” Barbara said. Life in the Bakery Led to Love, Then Loss of Balance 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z She said backstage that she's enjoying motherhood and is at the beginning stages of recording her next album. Varied winners at Grammy Awards 2013-02-11T15:32:09Z As a result, mainstream culture still sees black motherhood as a distortion of true motherhood ideals, and therefore unworthy of the big screen. Motherlode Blog: Hollywood to Black Mothers: Stay Home 2012-06-19T01:02:47Z Nothing against that movie -- or "Mrs. Miniver," or any of the other holiday perennials -- but there's more to movie motherhood than the usual four-hanky specials. The movies that truly understand motherhood 2011-05-06T23:30:00Z While motherhood comes naturally to Samsa, Boulder is left feeling like the cans trailing a newlyweds’ getaway car: “It has no bearing on me; I’ve been sent into exile.” She Is a Rock; She Is an Island 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Emma, parent to a 3-year-old and pregnant with her second child, is in the most insistent and physically taxing stretch of motherhood. Two women's lives dangerously collide in Harriet Lane's 'Her' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z “Planning? I wouldn’t say planning,” she told Vogue about her upcoming motherhood. Rihanna talks fashion, motherhood as due date approaches 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z The discussion then turned to the women’s experiences of motherhood, including balancing life and work. At BroadwayCon, Hillary Clinton Celebrates Women in the Theater 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z I think feminists assuming that motherhood is going to be tougher and more distracting for Mayer aren’t helping change the terms of the debate for women leaders. Marissa Mayer’s new job 2012-07-17T23:13:00Z What a wild, joyful, cosmic, overwhelming, incredible, uncertain, life-altering experience pregnancy and motherhood can be. So, you’re pregnant — here’s what’s safe to eat and drink 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z The artist’s monumental ‘‘Maman’’ aims to depict the ferocity of motherhood. What's On This Week Around the World 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z The strain of caring for a child in insecure circumstances shadowed the pleasures of motherhood. The Brutal Economy of Cleaning Other People’s Messes, for $9 an Hour 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z To her conservative parents and eight brothers, Leila’s impending motherhood is yet another of her outrageous scandals. ‘The Persian Version’ Review: A Bumpy Road Out of Iran 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z The ways motherhood transforms women — for good and ill — are at the center of Tess’s investigations in “Hush Hush.” Review: ‘Hush Hush’ by Laura Lippman 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Lib assumes the mantle of motherhood gradually and with enough complexity that the story never falls into predictability. ‘The Wonder’ Review: The Hungry Woman 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z But is motherhood really a greater role than being secretary of state or a justice on the Supreme Court? Is motherhood Natalie Portman's "greatest role"? 2011-02-28T16:29:00Z I didn't really take time off, but what I will say is God has blessed me with such a beautiful career, but I've also been managing motherhood and work. From hood films to a "The Banker," Nia Long wants to change the narrative for black dreams 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z It’s also an examination of the parent-child relationship, the vulnerability that stems from trust and the demands of modern motherhood. 11 Horror Movies for People Who Don’t Like Scary Movies 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Her eventual response, shaping the news within the family, is not only one of the most beautifully constructed scenes among this year’s Oscar films but also a kind of exemplar of compassionate motherhood. Beale Street's Regina King: 'Awards season is like a new full-time job!' 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z Framing administration policy through a motherhood/parenting lens ensures that the needs and concerns of parents remain part of the national discourse. Michelle Obama: The one woman in America who actually has it all 2013-12-05T19:26:00Z "Mrs. Maisel" has never idealized motherhood the way that so, so many other shows and fictions do. "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" gives us a refreshing take on abortion, but how realistic is it 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Then pregnancy, motherhood and newer material put the album in limbo. Playlist: New CDs: From Rye Rye, Maga Bo, Sigur Ros and Cold Specks 2012-05-25T21:06:59Z In the New York Times Book Review, Judith Warner considers two new books about the culture and politics of motherhood, and Judith Newman reviews Anne Enright’s memoir “Making Babies.” ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: A Novelist's View of the Absurdities of Motherhood 2012-05-11T18:38:48Z The details of motherhood and child care are never glossed over or ignored, even when the women start to investigate the crime on their own. The Struggles of Modern Motherhood in Essays, a Thriller and a Dystopian Novel 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Traces of motherhood dominate the flashbacks that form “The Handmaid’s Tale’s” backstories this season. Perspective | In ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘Homeland,’ two heroines judged by their devotion to motherhood 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z From another angle, too, she has a special relationship to motherhood. Love's True Kiss: 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Has motherhood changed how she sees her career? Alison Balsom: The top brass 2010-10-07T21:45:00Z I am no model of motherhood, but my answers to those quiz questions are all of our answers. Motherlode Blog: Never Mom Enough 2012-05-10T21:18:26Z What she’s really doing is sending up some of the typical, or stereotypical, complaints about motherhood. ArtsBeat: Isabella Rossellini’s Sly Maternal Instinct 2013-05-10T22:53:42Z Is a society that, in many ways, emancipates women from marriage, and gives them sexual freedom, actually producing glorified 1950s housewives who have no choices other than motherhood? The kingdom of women: the Tibetan tribe where a man is never the boss 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Now, I’m at risk of developing diabetes in the future and have had to incorporate some of the lifestyle changes I made into motherhood. 'My teeth moved so much I needed braces' – readers on how childbirth changed them 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z The movie's idea of motherhood and womanhood is shallow, at best: an Instagram fantasy. Wanda, the MCU's Instagram boymom of “Doctor Strange” 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z For all its charm, “French Braid” is a quietly subversive novel, tackling fundamental assumptions about womanhood, motherhood and female aging. Anne Tyler, Close-Up Artist, Zooms Out for a Novel of Family Rifts 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z She feeds her memoir with those tales, as well as scenes from motherhood and other episodes from life off the sound stage. Just Foolin’ Around: 7 Books From Comics and Humorists 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Last week, feminists celebrated the 50th anniversary of Betty Friedan’s book, which explores the ways in which traditional conceptions of motherhood and housewifery stifle and demean women and diminish society as a whole. Is motherhood causing my depression? 2013-02-25T23:30:00Z Combining a university education with motherhood, Phyllis Klotman earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from Western Reserve University, as it was then known, in the early 1960s, followed by a doctorate there. Phyllis R. Klotman, Scholar and Archivist of African-American Cinema, Dies at 90 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z The witness protection program is probably the best metaphor for motherhood I never thought of before. Is the real monster in “Pieces of Her” the mother-artist? 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Dear Internet: Sorry about that motherhood post Topics: , , , Online culture, mommy blogging, , , Pregnancy, , , Two weeks ago I answered a call for submissions. Dear Internet: Sorry about that motherhood post 2013-02-03T02:00:00Z New in paperback: the Bainbridge Island author's memoir of motherhood, yoga and family dynamics. Local Book: Cascadia's butterflies 2011-12-30T19:26:04Z But the novel is also a love letter to understanding motherhood and your own mother. Julie Buntin’s ‘Marlena’ is a gritty coming-of-age story about a troubled friendship 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Most of the women I’m honored to call friends have been emboldened by motherhood: They wouldn’t hesitate to raise their voices, or their fists, to protect their children. Curse of my birthing hips 2012-12-20T01:00:00Z Both of them were defined completely by their marriage and their motherhood, and I know both of them fiercely loved but were totally consumed by the families they had created. Pop-up book club: The Feminine Mystique – day one 2013-02-20T19:05:08Z And not just for sophisticated tastes, fashion sense or creative motherhood, but as a standard-bearer who neither slinks nor sashays her way through middle age. Seeing the Michelle Obama workout video, I finally get it 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z But if that is the case, I wish the show would stop pretending it were about anything actually substantive — motherhood, AIDS, fame, love. ‘American Horror Story’ Season 5, Episode 6: Impersonation of Love 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z In the 90s, America was grappling with how to reconcile ambition and motherhood, typified by Candice Bergen’s sitcom Murphy Brown, in which the title character — a news anchor — becomes a single mother. The People v OJ Simpson: episode six – the trials of Marcia Clark 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Indeed, the actress left "Glee" after Season 4, when she was pregnant, to focus on motherhood. Heather Morris of 'Glee' reportedly engaged to longtime boyfriend 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z She also has alarming fantasies of motherhood, in which she sees an assortment of overstressed alter-egos pregnant or tending, exhausted, to needy newborns. In Revelatory Revivals, Women Sing Through the Pain 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z It was motherhood, she said, that compelled the parental angle. Film: It?s What She Knows: The Luxe Life 2010-12-10T22:53:00Z “Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood.” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Blueprint for Feminism 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Her directorical debut, This Is My Life, was the story of an aspirant comedian struggling to juggle her mushrooming success with single motherhood. Nora Ephron – a career in clips 2012-06-27T10:08:00Z We watch as Schumer publicly reveals her pregnancy and begins to incorporate impending motherhood into her act. Review | In ‘Expecting Amy,’ Amy Schumer shares the intimate details of what’s about to pop 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z A bronze goddess of motherhood with four arms and elongated earlobes. Netscape Founder Gives Up $35 Million in Art Said to Be Stolen 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z “Women in their 20s,” says Boler, “who are not thinking about motherhood, but want to strengthen their pelvic floor either because they are very into exercise, or because they are more conscious about being healthy.” Bluetooth your bladder: the hi-tech way to beat incontinence 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z He wrote the screenplay for this year’s “Lights Out,” a horror film about depression grounded in the fear of motherhood. The anti-“Gravity”: What “Arrival” gets right that Sandra Bullock’s space odyssey didn’t 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Bushnell’s second book is equally effective in showing the impact of motherhood and loss on members of her tribe. Review | 22 books about Manhattan jet-setters that will make you feel like one 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Elena wants motherhood equally as much as she wants a literary life. 'The Story of the Lost Child' is a masterful conclusion to Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Explicit about sex and the physicality of motherhood, wonderfully acute in their depiction of children, her novels also featured supernatural elements and explosions of violence. Julie Myerson: a life in writing 2013-03-22T17:17:00Z This whole story was driven by your own experience of motherhood, and going back and looking at your family. "Always have doubts on what authority says is true," says "One Child Nation documentary filmmaker 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z I had the advantage of Spare Rib magazine, early feminism and women’s support groups to help me to articulate my feelings during my difficult years of motherhood. ‘My parents’ life was a charade. Mum hated every minute of it’ 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z There’s the stereotype of the “broken home,” and the presumption of single motherhood and multiple fathers if there are multiple children. Review | With ‘Concrete Rose,’ Angie Thomas eviscerates stereotypes about Black families 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z I think that, in our society, the idea of motherhood is pathologically ill, and even well-meaning people assume martyrdom in a mother. This Week in Fiction: Lauren Groff on the Cult of Motherhood 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z You are often exploring stories of women and violence and motherhood. Lily Rabe waited 15 years to make her directorial debut: "It's not the arena for playing it safe" 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z It insults those who don’t want kids, or aren’t sure, by elevating motherhood above every other option. Stop pressuring women to be moms: It’s insulting to assume we all want the same thing 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Quinn spends this episode spouting stock phrases about potential motherhood at Booth — such a downgrade from her usual predatory acumen that even Constance Zimmer can’t summon much energy for it. ‘UnREAL’ Season 2, Episode 8: ‘That’s Not This Story’ 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Not, I hasten to add, because I have anything against Christmas, or – now you mention it – motherhood and apple pie. Season's readings: Babar and Father Christmas by Jean de Brunhoff 2010-12-03T11:22:00Z But according to Sherman-Palladino, the parallelism doesn’t mean that the two women are destined to make the same choice about motherhood. The “Gilmore Girls” have the right to choose: How television is changing the conversation about abortion 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z “You sound disappointed that I am not choosing motherhood over being number one in the world at this point of time,” she answered. Sania Mirza doesn’t need to “settle down”: “No matter how many Wimbledons we win” women are still asked about motherhood and marriage 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z I mean, how did they deal with the tiresome nature of motherhood? My agnostic AA 2012-06-20T18:28:00Z She believed she was meant to write, but because of the demands of work and motherhood, she was past 40 when her first novel was published. For P.D. James, literary success came late in life, and continues in a new book 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Only a tiny minority of people, Ms. Badinter argues, embrace the “most radical depictions” of naturalist motherhood, but the rest of us are “nonetheless influenced by the trend.” Motherlode Blog: Motherlode Book Club: Elisabeth Badinter's The Conflict. Has Motherhood Replaced Sexism in Oppressing Women? 2012-04-13T20:14:05Z That also takes away from the scenes in which Rukeyser realistically demonstrates the requirements motherhood asks of Billie's body, a contrast with her yearning for sexual fulfillment. "Sex/Life": Netflix's best worst raunchy ride of this summer is 50 shades of oy vey 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Taylor knew well the endless dreary tasks with which postwar domestic life and motherhood were filled. The other Elizabeth Taylor's Complete Short Stories 2012-07-06T21:55:05Z Matlin conveys so much about motherhood, struggle and longing with a look. Is "CODA" the "Green Book" of films about deaf people? 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z During the first years of motherhood, she feared losing altogether the creative outlet of writing and her sense of herself as a working writer and actor. Julia Davis: laughing in the dark 2012-08-10T22:00:36Z The accompanying article is titled “Beyoncé in Her Own Words” — not a profile, but a collection of brief, only-occasionally-revealing commentaries on a range of topics: motherhood and family, body acceptance, touring. R.I.P., the Celebrity Profile 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Which is to say, for all its maudlin escapism, the film sheds light on enduring concerns about motherhood, biology, and parental rights almost a century after it is set. The motherhood cure-all: “The Light Between Oceans” illuminates a reckless romance with adoption fallacies 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z From Cherry we learned that impending motherhood is bewildering, exciting, surreal and wonderful. What have Cherry Healey and Dawn Porter taught us? 2011-08-05T23:12:01Z But soon she was pregnant and finding the prospect of motherhood scarier than any front line. Lee Miller: the model, the monster and the mother 2013-04-22T21:00:00Z The idea coincided with pregnancy and motherhood, which pushed her to consider the environmental aspects of the packaging. For Connoisseurs and Joe Sixpack, Canned Wines Beckon 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z People started smiling at me, asking about the baby as my belly grew, assuming I was a “nice” person by virtue of harboring another life inside me, never thinking to question my credentials for motherhood. From poster mom to pariah 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z About motherhood, Pedro always offers me characters that are mothers or pregnant or, in "Live Flesh," I was giving birth. "I decide with my heart": Penélope Cruz on her marriage, career and working with Pedro Almodóvar 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z But who cares when issues of motherhood, race and class still clash so starkly? Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z There, placidly smiling, she reveals a family trauma that disassembles any preconceived notions about the film’s relationship to gender, motherhood or even Hunter herself. When Moms Attack 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z The oratorio followed the life of a woman from birth to death, via romance, marriage and motherhood. Natalie Dessay Finishes What Barbra Streisand Started 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z And let’s not underestimate how viscerally the sanctity of motherhood can be exploited as a narrative device. Books of The Times: A Mother?s Devotion, a Family?s Tearful Regrets 2011-03-30T22:25:15Z White and black feminists alike sometimes exhibit a level of discomfort at seeing Michelle Obama embrace a Norman Rockwell-esque vision of American motherhood, as if the trope doesn’t properly belong to a black woman. Michelle Obama: The one woman in America who actually has it all 2013-12-05T19:26:00Z Such is the frankness and force with which Simpson writes about her chosen subjects of motherhood and the that people find it harder than normal to accept she's not transcribing from life. Helen Simpson: 'I stuffed it with sex and violence' 2010-05-28T06:00:00Z On a purely musical level, I wanted a female voice -- a woman who represents motherhood, sisterhood, Anita Bryant -- I never mention females by name. Harvey Milk oratorio getting a staging in Los Angeles 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Yes, "Sweet Magnolias" is a fantasy, but the danger of showing only the fantasy of single motherhood is how isolated it makes those of us — millions of us — living the reality feel. "Sweet Magnolias" is full of single moms – too bad it misses what solo parenting is really like 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z The extended trailer for Janet Jackson's upcoming two-part documentary "Janet" chronicles the renowned musician's intimate journey from childhood stardom to sisterhood and motherhood. Will we finally get justice for Janet Jackson? Artist tells her own story in new documentary trailer 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z The films are about refugees, yes, but they’re also about marriage and love and motherhood. Liv Ullmann has given out many Oscars. Now she gets her own. 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Witherspoon stars in both series, and each digs into issues of class privilege, snobbery ,and motherhood. "Little Fires Everywhere" is a gripping, soapy reminder of that yesterday's ills are still present 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z If anything, her scenes of motherhood offer the most tender moments in the book. Noy Holland's novel 'Bird' slips between past and present, lover and life 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z The film only slightly touches on Kitty's tragic past, potential mental health issues and rejection of motherhood. That "Oppenheimer" sex scene speaks to a larger problem with Christopher Nolan's storytelling 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z AP: The motherhood and work conundrum is a big one that this film tackles with a lot of nuance and empathy. Q&A: Eva Green on playing an astronaut in ‘Proxima’ 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z They are always written with incredible empathy, each word balm for the stark, stinging loneliness that the experience of motherhood can inspire – the state of being always and never alone. Why the 'open letter to mothers' trend needs to stop 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Sites like Unruly Things, A Little Muse and Rip + Tan are virtual spaces embracing motherhood while honing in on prechild predilections for designer denim or art-house photography. Mommy Blog or a Glossy Fashion Magazine? 2013-06-12T22:54:13Z By the time she flees the beach with a doll impulsively stolen from Nina’s daughter, it’s clear that Leda has some issues about motherhood that even a solo trip can’t help but trigger. Venice Film Festival: Elena Ferrante, Olivia Colman and Resort Horror 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z But “Wendy” has also stayed on my mind ever since, through the pandemic and the blurriness of new motherhood, and maybe more than any film this year is the one I’m most eager to revisit. New this week: ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ and Paul McCartney 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z By making his protagonist a woman, Brant accesses other issues, too, chiefly the disconnect between motherhood and war. Combat via video screen and its emotional toll 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z And Mitt Romney’s answer to that question about stemming the tide of gun violence was, stopping single motherhood. Scary single ladies: Rebecca Traister explains why single women frighten the hell out of the GOP 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The honest truth is that I found Natasha grating, and frequently frustrating, especially her repeated insistence on her pre-childbirth hotness and her incredulity about motherhood. And Now, a Case for the Ordinary 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z The upside of the episode, slight though it may be, is that it’s interesting to see how motherhood affects these specific characters. 'Orange Is the New Black' Season 3, Episode 12 Recap: Clanging Themes 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z An Egyptian woman who was forced to live as a man in order to support her daughter was recently awarded the country’s highest award for motherhood. Egyptian Woman Who Lived as a Man to Find Work Honored with Motherhood Award 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z A: No, because this is not a generalized book about impoverished single motherhood. Deborah Copaken never wanted to be ‘Shutterbabe.’ Her new memoir is on her terms. 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z “This is one more way in which motherhood is sanctified — the idea that these women especially shouldn’t be drinking because they’re taking care of young children.” Mothers are drinking more than ever. But the sober-curious movement challenges ‘wine-mom’ culture. 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z They typically march from a short distance to their protest location chanting, “Forced motherhood is female enslavement!” and carrying a banner that says the same. “Are the white women wearing actual chains?”: Meet the abortion rights group Texas feminists oppose 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z At its core, Malaika’s story also shows how police enact and enforce deep devaluation of Black motherhood. The violent policing of Black motherhood: How and why cops target mothers of color 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Jami Attenberg, author of “The Middlesteins,” returns with a beguiling portrait of a woman on the verge of 40 for whom being “All Grown Up” doesn’t mean checking the boxes of marriage and motherhood. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z And this particular framing, a major split in community within the context of exploring of what motherhood is about. On Toni Morrison, motherhood and "Pose": A conversation with Steven Canals 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z It was a thorny problem, this balancing work and motherhood, but she took the long view. Google honors a feminist original 2013-04-02T16:11:00Z Mother and daughter reminisce, joke and bicker, circling back to the same topics: the craft of acting, the strange experience of fame, the infinite doubts and compromises of motherhood. Walking and Talking About Raising Kids and Surviving Hollywood 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z On paper, Smith had the life she always dreamed of, all while being happily married and reaping the benefits of motherhood. 7 heartbreaking Anna Nicole Smith revelations from Netflix's documentary "You Don't Know Me" 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z The bitterness seeps into the bones, corrupting personal relationships, motherhood and even innocence. Fen ? review 2011-03-09T19:01:00Z In reality, motherhood for me is the opposite of oppressive; it’s been an amazing liberation. Modern Love: Chained to the Hearth or Warmed by It? 2013-09-05T23:01:20Z In addition, the emergence of the phrase "as American as motherhood and apple pie" led the dish to emerge as a symbol of feminine love. Why apple pie isn’t so American after all 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z But the pleasures of family life will not be hers; even motherhood is hers to enjoy only briefly. 'Private Life': Jane Smiley's quiet novel of a Midwestern girl's odyssey 2010-05-05T22:35:00Z That idea, of motherhood as a catalyst for self-discovery, became a refrain toward the end of the novel, when Libertie reads a letter from her mother. Excellence Runs in the Family. Her Novel’s Heroine Wants Something Else. 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z In her essay “?” Deesha Philyaw explores “the relative absence of black women’s voices in mainstream U.S. media discourse about motherhood in general.” Michelle Obama: The one woman in America who actually has it all 2013-12-05T19:26:00Z But the murderous-baby metaphor assumes more and more of motherhood’s potential pitfalls with every episode. When Motherhood Is a Horror Show 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Books like “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” the “Fit Mom” who was accused of body-shaming other moms, Gwyneth Paltrow’s ”diabolical” comments about motherhood: the outrage machine devours them one by one. Is Batman the world’s worst dad? The most disastrous comic book parents 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z But we hear just as much about her pregnancies, motherhood and marriages as we do about her science. A New View of Evolution That Can’t Be Represented by a Tree 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Perhaps, since it’s revealed in the last four words that Rory is pregnant, it will be motherhood, again, that forces a girl to grow up. My Life with Rory Gilmore 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z It also informed thousands of conversations among women across generations about what it meant to “choose” career or motherhood, and what needed to change in order to allow us to more easily choose both. Motherlode Blog: After the Opt-Out Revolution, Asking: How’s That Working for You? 2013-08-08T15:18:41Z She isn’t a bad mother, she’s just having a tough time adjusting to motherhood while also treating her postpartum depression. ‘Jane the Virgin’ Season 2, Episode 20: Are Jane and Petra Friends? 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z The hit shows document the plight of several young women as they deal with the hardships of young motherhood and more. Soundtrack to be released for MTV's 'Teen Mom' 2012-01-17T13:08:11Z By then I was eight-and-a-half months pregnant and trying to get everything done before my time evaporated into motherhood. Modern Love: Anchors Don?t Come in Pretty Boxes 2010-04-23T17:02:00Z Welcome to motherhood, I thought, backing away as Ben turned the soles of his feet toward my husband and me. His adoption secret 2012-07-03T00:00:00Z It became a hit and eventually led to a spinoff, “Teen Mom,” which followed a handful of the young women as they tried to balance motherhood and, really, anything else. Critic’s Notebook: MTV’s ‘Teen Mom 3’ Tells Distressingly Familiar Stories 2013-08-25T21:54:47Z Some of the results confirmed what we already know, like that motherhood has a big impact on how women view their success. 10 Secrets to Success Every Woman Should Hear 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z And team Scriberia's support extends to that most unlikely circumstance, as any working mom will tell you: support of Vivian through her pregnancy and into early motherhood. To the crimes of "Inventing Anna," add atrocious journalism 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z At the end of last season, Carrie was so panicked about the responsibility of motherhood that she had to be dissuaded from giving up the baby for adoption. ‘Homeland’ Begins Its New Season on Sunday 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z I want motherhood to be an important part of our identities but not our first names. Olympic moms have it all! 2012-07-31T15:15:00Z Not a lot of "Inventing Anna" seems real, so a fantastical view of motherhood should come as no surprise. To the crimes of "Inventing Anna," add atrocious journalism 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z “Murphy Brown” was ahead of its time for its sexual politics, including its frank portrayal of single motherhood, which has since become more common. ‘Murphy Brown’ once sparked a feud with Dan Quayle. Now the reboot is courting one with Trump. 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z But Tyson, apparently suffering from postpartum depression, is unreconciled to the domestic limitations of motherhood; despite Jason’s moony reassurances, she dreams of bigger things than drip bottles and exercise wheels. Review: In ‘Breeders,’ Parenting as a (Literal) Cage Match 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z The rewards and demands of pregnancy and young motherhood, emotionally and especially physically, anchor Rabins’s second collection. New & Noteworthy 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z He dislikes the “cult of motherhood”, which, he says, has come so much to the fore in the last decade. ‘It's the breaking of a taboo’: the parents who regret having children 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z In fact, he writes, she was anything but clueless — “she was a steely professional, not about to let motherhood get in the way of her career.” Review: ‘The Last Love Song,’ a Biography of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z The journey of motherhood, for me as it is for some women, was such a confluence — I have jokingly called it a bludgeoning of identity. Jennifer Nettles Had Sung ‘She Used to Be Mine.’ But Not While Crying. 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Soon the baby will be here and you will be consumed with motherhood. My new hubby shoots upskirts 2013-03-05T01:00:00Z This horrible push/pull of motherhood guilt while trying to find enough time for myself went on until my son was about 3. My baby-sitter addiction 2012-09-26T00:00:00Z The trouble is motherhood itself, and its ideal of total selfless devotion. Mommy Is Going Away for a While 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z It took nearly a decade of motherhood before I saw this holiday as having anything to do with me. Motherlode Blog: Whose Mother's Day Is It? 2012-05-10T14:06:41Z Even as these stories work to uncover motherhood’s complex emotional truths, they indulge their own little fiction: that a mother only becomes interesting when she stops being one. Mommy Is Going Away for a While 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z In 2007, Orange prize judge Muriel Gray groaned over the "sheer volume of thinly disguised autobiographical writing from women on small-scale domestic themes, such as motherhood, boyfriend troubles and tiny family dramas". Helen Simpson: 'I stuffed it with sex and violence' 2010-05-28T06:00:00Z In Philip Norman’s well-respected book, “Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation,” an unnamed psychologist suggests that the screaming girls “are subconsciously preparing for motherhood. Their frenzied screams are a rehearsal for that moment.” I saw the Beatles live, but no, I didn’t scream. It’s time to take female fans seriously. 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z "There is a talent show in there, but actually, really what it's about is about friendship, it's about motherhood and then there is a little bit of how do you juggle between success and friendship?" Spice Girls in raucous reunion to promote musical 2012-06-26T15:36:44Z Q: Do you see "Tully" as connected in any way to your Showtime series "United States of Tara," which is also, in a different way, about the strains of motherhood? With her new movie ‘Tully,’ Diablo Cody delves into the dark side of parenting 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Postpartum depression is a subtle thread but a powerful one, rendered realistically in the film, which treats motherhood not as hindrance but a strength. The superpower of “She Said” is also its undoing: Motherhood 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z For your group if: You appreciate a European perspective on race, class and motherhood. Review | ‘The Woman in the Window’ or ‘The Wife Between Us’? A guide to the best new thrillers 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z What it has really always been is motherhood under oppression. Lonnae O’Neal: The Baltimore mom slaps her son for the ages 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z All of which, he admits, sounds like motherhood and apple pie, but he offers it as a challenge to the more conventional approach to history that focuses on the rulers rather than the ruled. Pride of place 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z My father’s death before my marriage, and motherhood. Christy Turlington: ‘The closest I’ve come to death? The birth of my daughter’ 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z But Shelly’s selfish breakdown was more than just infuriating; it was one of the show’s strongest depictions of the art of motherhood, in all its performative and socially constructed glory. “Transparent” tells the truth about being a mom: Motherhood is just as performative as gender 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z But gunshots, stabbings and kidnappings — or having Taylor Swift name her kitten after you — are nothing compared to her latest task: motherhood. Olivia Benson as Mama Bear 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Aside from the scares, “Home” functions as a sort of dark mirror onto vintage Americana, imagining a sinister underbelly to insular small towns, motherhood and family, classic Cadillacs and even Johnny Mathis. ‘X-Files’ Writers Recall the Show’s Most Disturbing Episode 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z By this I mean a film that has a female lead and maybe themes that are seen as exclusively ‘female’: motherhood, romance, emotions. Wonder women: how female action heroes will blast cinema screens in 2018 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z But part of me was afraid of getting swallowed up by motherhood. Motherlode Blog: Why a Widowed Mom Sends Her Son to Camp All Summer 2013-06-02T12:30:36Z And so, because it seems to have been missed in all the busy chatter about how the movie star is “managing” motherhood, let me tell you what else Jolie told Channel 4. It’s not about Angelina Jolie quitting acting 2012-12-06T20:55:00Z “Our culture still takes motherhood as a starting point for your female identity,” said Elizabeth Podnieks, a professor of English who’s written about mothers in popular culture, when I asked her about this chasm. Spike heels, sex and strollers: I’m tired of lady mags pretending that motherhood doesn’t exist 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z Instead, I started to wonder when the last time was that a movie or show gave viewers the full scope of what a typical pregnancy and motherhood are truly like. When you’re pregnant, movies and TV constantly remind you of the worst-case scenario 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Deb, 41, has abandoned her ballet career for motherhood; now she teaches dance, as her former colleagues bask in their status as divas. ‘Among the Ten Thousand Things’: A family torn apart by infidelity 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Here in excerpts from the conversation, Ms. Farmiga talks about her nomination and the joys of motherhood, both authentic and fictitious. ArtsBeat: Emmy Nominees: Vera Farmiga of ‘Bates Motel’ 2013-07-18T15:57:15Z Stay-at-home motherhood suits Thorn down to the ground, and she retires from the music industry until one day the urge to sing, and record, returns – a period glossed over, but summarised with warmth and candour. Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn – review 2013-02-10T08:00:01Z Then we turn to Julie Myerson, who was accused of a "betrayal of motherhood" when she wrote a book which included an account of her teenage son's descent into drug addiction. Guardian books podcast: Amy Chua and Julie Myerson 2011-07-08T13:25:31Z But the possibility that bothered me most: What if I loved motherhood so much that I wanted several children? Motherlode Blog: Freezing Eggs, and Hoarding My Fertility 2014-01-26T13:37:49Z The book, a huge bestseller in England, is the first-person tale of a frazzled woman trying to balance motherhood with a corporate career. SJP in "I Don't Know How She Does It," and other movie news 2010-12-22T20:22:04Z I would want to talk to her about single motherhood. Gina Gionfriddo on ‘Rapture, Blister, Burn’ and Wasserstein 2012-06-10T04:00:34Z Beyond motherhood and secrets from the past, there is the question of Ruth’s marriage. Review | Nancy Johnson’s ‘The Kindest Lie’ is a layered, complex exploration of race and class 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z It is a weird and magnificent sequence that distills many ideas and motifs in Ferrante’s novels, her vision of motherhood as life-giving, comforting, terrifying and deathly, all at once. Elena Ferrante’s Picture Book Embraces the Dark Side 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z "Teen Mom" documents the challenges of four teens' first years of motherhood. Realty show star charged with probation violation 2011-08-09T01:49:08Z Sharon — as in the writer and actor Horgan, who has lacerated motherhood and marriage in “Catastrophe” and “Divorce” — had been getting an earful, too. Daryl McCormack Has More Than Luck on His Side 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z It’s not a glorified portrait of motherhood but a gritty and sobering one. Forget the Boy: Watching Patricia Arquette Age in Boyhood Is Astounding 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Despite those differences, motherhood has brought her back into my life, and it has given me an opportunity to embrace my own path as a woman and mother. Our most dangerous hike 2012-05-21T01:00:00Z “At its core, it’s about motherhood, it’s about parenthood, it’s about how far you’d go to protect your children,” Blunt says. Emily Blunt: 'It's about human beings and how they're affected by a crisis' 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z All I knew about motherhood was that it was so awful that my mother had run off when I was seven, not wanting to have anything to do with it. We’ve been children together, my daughter and me 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Poehler has an excellent chapter on motherhood, titled “Every Mother Needs a Wife.” Here Are Some Sex Tips From Amy Poehler's New Book (Plus Insight on Motherhood and Divorce) 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Rachel Cusk may have written "childbirth and motherhood are the anvil upon which sexual inequality was forged" but using personal experience is still controversial. Jane Martinson: 10 lessons I've learned from being Guardian women's editor 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Then: “motherhood has changed u. uve never written with such freedom joy and love of life its the most bighearted expansive novel you’ve ever written.” My Friend Has Cancer 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z I’m going to take it back even further and say Esther Rolle’s portrayal of Florida Evans on “Good Times” was one of the best TV representations of motherhood. Where are the realistic TV moms? 2014-02-09T21:00:00Z Meanwhile, in the absence of societal support, the stress of motherhood is more readily commodified. American mothers need a break. But is the ‘momcation’ a solution to their problems or a symptom? 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Ladzu and her friends may still be living for motherhood, but she is part of a pioneering generation in transition: she is married, and to a Han Chinese man. The kingdom of women: the Tibetan tribe where a man is never the boss 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z I remained her only child, but motherhood only seemed to enhance my mother’s glamour and sophistication. Our most dangerous hike 2012-05-21T01:00:00Z “There are many feminist movements, not just one type … I agree with those who give a lot of importance to motherhood.” The Vatican editor who exposed the sexual abuse of nuns – and took on the Pope 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Glamorous it is not, and for Mizuki — the spirited yet conflicted Japanese protagonist of Emily Itami’s “Fault Lines” — being “submerged in motherhood” is the antithesis of everything she thought her life would be. Review | Societal expectations? Please. For the female protagonists in these 3 debut novels, it’s time to break the mold. 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z The result is a particularly hard look at motherhood and service; the two main characters who have children both gave up legal custody to get around rules against training and deploying single parents. Women’s war stories: Sex, stress-relief and mothering from afar "It's definitely not easy juggling work and motherhood, as being a parent is a full-time job within itself," the singer said. Christina Aguilera introduces daughter Summer Rain on People cover 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z "Sometimes I think I haven't written about anything else," she said, calling motherhood "both thrilling and threatening." Elena Ferrante, Author of Naples Novels, Stays Mysterious 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Why is the identity of motherhood so vexed and so mercurial? What a mother should be 2013-05-12T10:00:00Z With life centred on the maternal family, motherhood is, unsurprisingly, revered. The kingdom of women: the Tibetan tribe where a man is never the boss 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z That Ms. Rivera had already experienced marriage and motherhood before the couple met remained harder to accept for Mr. Alonzo, so much so that he broke up with her in September 2016. On Paper, They Were All Wrong. But in Time, Just Right. 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z My sons were born 18 and 15 years ago, so I stand on the outer edge of motherhood, quite sure of what all that delivery-room endurance was about. Childbirth is my extreme sport 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z I had a debate with myself about whether I should reveal motherhood as a subject in my work. Jenny Saville’s Nudes Bring Renaissance Masters Down to Earth 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Doris, as far as I can tell, you’re being chill about the whole motherhood thing. Motherhood isn’t the path to enlightenment for all women 2013-01-24T21:10:00Z A day rarely passes when I don’t feel the pain of a child who will always be 6, of motherhood in the past, of bedtime stories read by another while I worked late. Modern Love: Gifts for the Broken-Hearted 2010-10-15T21:20:00Z This, Biss argues, is what motherhood, parenthood, also teaches, that for better and for worse we are inextricably linked. Eula Biss' 'On Immunity' is a beautiful shot of insight 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z During this past season “Mad Men” exalted motherhood more than any other series on television. Critic?s Notebook: Freud on Madison Avenue, Where Biology Appears as Destiny 2010-10-18T22:40:00Z Her own experiences of motherhood had taken her to hell and back. Perspective | Alice Neel was the greatest American portraitist of the 20th century. Her work continues to astonish. 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z “I was out of my mind with motherhood, absolutely gaga, but in a good way,” Ms. Henderson said. The Culinary Couple Who Built a British Empire 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z In it, we see Thatcher in moments of fervent motherhood and homemaking. Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher are central to ‘The Crown’ Season 4 — and so are their roles as mothers 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Women in these countries are also increasingly exposed to known cancer risk factors “associated with rapid economic transition”, said Cowal, “such as physical inactivity, unhealthy diet, obesity, and reproductive factors” including postponing motherhood. Cancer deaths among women to rise 60% by 2030, new reports warn 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Driven Natalie, who reinvented herself as the world's idea of a success, is coming off the rails; uncertain Leah is balking at the prospect of motherhood; for Nathan, it's been downhill since primary school. The big novels of 2012 2012-07-13T15:00:07Z They are all bound and determined to speak truthfully about motherhood. Playwright Molly Smith Metzler's 'Cry It Out' takes a hard look at motherhood It couldn't be a woman who understands the experience of motherhood, because once you hold a little baby in your arms, you could never condone abortion. Why mothers defend Roe v. Wade: Abortion is a fact of life for parents, too 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Arguing for abortion rights while celebrating motherhood, “One Sings” is an anthology of Ms. Varda’s other interests, including photography, documenting rural France and unconventional domestic arrangements. ‘One Sings, the Other Doesn’t’: Agnès Varda’s Polarizing Paean to Sisterhood 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z And it’s not just my mom who wants to assign me the motherhood status I’ve worked so hard to avoid. Don’t call me mama — not today, not ever 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z Today, she credits that crisis with being able to handle the first few months of motherhood. Keira Knightley: 'I can’t act the flirt or mother to get my voice heard. It makes me feel sick' 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z It also explores her personal life, and the difficulties of balancing motherhood with a life spent on the front lines of conflict. Oscar bait alert: Jennifer Lawrence to star as Spielberg’s first female lead in three decades 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z A fuller transformation is covered in the same gallery by a series of 11 images taken between 1994 and 2008 that follow a young Bosnian refugee named Almerisa into adolescence and beyond, to motherhood. Art Review: Rineke Dijkstra at the Guggenheim Museum 2012-07-05T14:00:00Z Ultimately, the best, most touching tale of motherhood on “Orange” was between Nicky and Red, the understated culmination of which we saw earlier this season when Nicky was sent to Max. 'Orange Is the New Black' Season 3, Episode 12 Recap: Clanging Themes 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Charlotte is returning to work after years of stay-at-home motherhood and is desperate to make the right impression. "And Just Like That," Charlotte reminds us of the longstanding fatphobia in "Sex and the City" 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z Back then, the two shared similar anxieties about the tensions between careers and motherhood, and the pressures placed squarely on women who choose opportunities. "The View" paid tribute to Barbara Walters. What they said and didn't say 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z She didn’t have a partner or substantial savings, but she embarked on fertility treatments and has transformed her successful trek to motherhood into a one-woman show. Theater Listings for Sept. 18-24 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z It’s Mother’s Day, and here’s a trio of new novels by Seattle-area authors that will turn readers’ thoughts toward motherhood and its many ramifications. On Mother’s Day, three new novels about motherhood 2013-05-13T05:55:34Z The truth of this is self-evident; former ballerina Darcey Bussell is one of many dancers who has told of the liberating new perspective on their work that motherhood brought. Vincent Dance Theatre – review 2012-11-18T00:06:05Z It’s a story that draws us deep into the essential qualities of motherhood and the compensations of faith. J. Courtney Sullivan’s ‘Saints for All Occasions’ is this year’s best book about family 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z The first-time filmmaker follows five New Yorkers, a cross section of ages and incomes, from late in their pregnancy through the first year of motherhood. 'Breastmilk' an intimate chronicle of women's, experts' views 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z AP: Did motherhood play a role in you wanting to explore a little more your Latino roots at this point? Q&A: Aguilera picks up Spanish full force with “LA FUERZA” 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Juggling motherhood with a demanding career has been helped by an optimistic, problem-solving disposition, she says – an ability to get through things even when they feel impossible. Super boss: six women on juggling motherhood and work 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z The actress spoke with Salon about the lessons of "Ride the Eagle" and motherhood and her decades in the business. Susan Sarandon on life, career and politics: "It is getting pretty biblical out there" 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z With its carefully drawn scenes of home life and its focus on the trials of motherhood and infertility, “Friends and Strangers” will be shelved as domestic fiction. Review | In ‘Friends and Strangers,’ a new mom insists the babysitter is her buddy. She’s not. 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Fast forward to today, and the idea that white working-class women are opting for single motherhood as the best decision for their families is suddenly a great idea. Christopher Columbus Syndrome strikes again: No, white women did not “discover” single motherhood 2014-04-25T16:30:00Z I've recently found another reason to thank my lucky stars: I went through my adolescence in the early 2000s, before blogs infiltrated modern motherhood. Motherlode Blog: Thanks, Mom, for Not Telling the World I Pulled a Knife on You 2012-12-27T16:15:57Z Making motherhood a required topic for women leaders minimizes their contributions to the industry…. Stop asking working moms about “having it all” — and women, stop answering 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z The collection concludes with the challenges of motherhood, such as this wry description of trying to balance the chores of domestic life with the demands of being an artist: Brenda Shaughnessy to discuss the ‘Life of a Poet’ at Hill Center 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z I’m afraid of undertaking motherhood alone, in a tiny apartment with a three-flight walk up and little savings. Motherlode Blog: It's Not That I Don't Want Children. Exactly. 2012-05-06T14:06:12Z This other marriage is wedged into the confines of our real marriages, our work, my motherhood — the way you jam one more book into an already full bookshelf. A Husband for Home; a Wife for Away 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Those things include the healthcare system, motherhood and apartheid. Debut novelist Zinzi Clemmons is frank and experimental in 'What We Lose' 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Either way, it signaled that unmarried women are supposed to choose between motherhood or romance — not pursue both at once. Swiping right in the fertility doctor's office: On pursuing romance and single motherhood at once 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z Nor is our journey in motherhood and middle-class angst and bliss told in cutesy books or on network sitcoms about modern family. Motherlode Blog: Hollywood to Black Mothers: Stay Home 2012-06-19T01:02:47Z One of those shared experiences getting the comic treatment: motherhood in a pandemic. Through comics, Seattle cartoonists document their lives during the coronavirus pandemic 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Aw shucks, there she is, sweetly explaining motherhood by saying, "No one can explain it to you." "I Don't Know How She Does It" -- Sarah Jessica Parker's ego trip 2011-09-15T21:16:00Z It’s a shocking moment, comic and grotesque and, yes, wholly understandable — like everything in this novel about the pain of motherhood, the actual scars left on the skin and the soul. Review | Kristen Arnett’s ‘With Teeth’ gives voice to a parent’s darkest thoughts 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z She seems like a woman accustomed to getting her way, not because she is complacent or overly entitled but because she expects the world to recognize the moral authority of motherhood. ‘Ben Is Back’ Review: A Mother and Son Face the Horrors of Addiction 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z There's this fantasy that motherhood is this pink and fluffy business that's all hearts and Mother's Day cards. Maternal torment 2011-05-16T08:23:43Z The problem is that we know what Quinn’s idea of motherhood produces: Rachel. ‘UnREAL’ Season 2, Episode 8: ‘That’s Not This Story’ 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Sunday’s Dolce and Gabbana show, named “Viva la mamma!,” was entirely dedicated to celebrating motherhood. The Problem With Dolce and Gabbana's Motherhood-Themed Runway Show 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Chimpanzees are our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, but it is possible that the duties of motherhood are just that. Chimpanzee: Yet Another Disney Orphan to Melt Hearts 2012-04-19T10:45:30Z Reading to your kids is one of those vegetables of motherhood. Motherlode Blog: I’m Tired of Reading Out Loud to My Son, O.K.? 2013-07-22T13:55:44Z And I dove into motherhood with all the zeal my peers were applying to Greenpeace and graduate school. All my parenting mistakes 2012-06-26T00:00:00Z You don’t have to crave motherhood to remember being a child yourself — and feeling in your marrow the profound influence the adults in your life had on you. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She says nurture isn’t in her nature, but her fiance has a kid 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z I appreciate you bringing this up because I keep bringing that up, that motherhood is so critically important, not only to this episode, but to this show as a whole. On Toni Morrison, motherhood and "Pose": A conversation with Steven Canals 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z They deal with motherhood in a passionate way, as if it were the most fundamental choice of their lives.” Cultural Studies: Elisabeth Badinter Defends the Imperfect Mother 2010-06-04T19:00:00Z As she managed new motherhood and her own student debt, her father’s diabetes worsened, so she scrambled, guilt-ridden, to find him a low-cost clinic from 3,000 miles away. A Transcendent Memoir About Family, Class and the Contours of Loss 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z And then there is that selfish fear — that I and my life would be inherently, perhaps irreparably, changed by the experience of motherhood. "Queer Eye" for the purity culture survivor: On the Fab Five's healthy approach to being selfish 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z The thing I was prepared to like least about Amelia Morris’s funny and engrossing debut novel — new motherhood and all the requisite growing pains — ultimately became the thing I admired about it most. This Novel Examines Motherhood, but Not From the Usual Angles 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z “Infinity Pool,” “Titane” and “Barbarian” all blur the lines between sex and motherhood. Modern Body Horror Is Turning Breastfeeding Into an Act of Terror 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Today’s “good mommy” projects a vision of motherhood that requires an unprecedented amount of calm, focus and dedication, creating a standard that many of us either can’t, or refuse to, live up to. The tyranny of the “bad mother”: Slacker moms are just as intimidating as perfect ones 2014-02-17T23:00:00Z Obviously, there’s a parallel in the anticipation of motherhood between myself and Serena. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: Yvonne Strahovski on the Harrowing Finale and Serena’s Murky Future 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z In this age and in this time when women's bodies are no longer considered their own by so much of the country, this burden of motherhood cannot be considered universally a blessing. Kathleen Turner on loving Marvel and disbelief at Roe v. Wade repeal: "We are not simply vessels" 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Even these, however, hardly add up to motherhood lost. Full-time employee misses being a full-time mom 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Even when a woman is doing what apparently she wants – from pole dancing to motherhood – the culture provides a kind of parking-space for her ambivalence about it. The Female Eunuch, 40 years on 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z It’s wonderfully progressive of the show: “You’re about to let motherhood hijack your goals.” ‘Jane the Virgin’ Season 2, Episode 3: Don’t Let Motherhood Hijack Your Goals 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The piece involves all the props of motherhood but lacks the most important players: children. Smother 2010-05-15T23:08:00Z I could choose motherhood, just as I could choose abortion. My mom finally made her choice, after a lifetime colored by the one she wasn't allowed 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z In “The Letdown,” his function is to help convey the degradation that motherhood has brought to the life of the heroine, Audrey, played by Alison Bell. This Man Doesn’t Star in Every Australian TV Show. It Just Seems That Way. 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Jena Malone: I'd taken a year and a half off getting lost in motherhood, and it felt precarious. "Lorelei" star Jena Malone: Lower-income stereotypes have always been "stigmatized but romanticized" 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z The story follows a young girl from Queens from girlhood through the seesawing changes of courtship, marriage, motherhood and a particularly brutal twist of fate. Beth Macy’s 'Factory Man,' Michael Lewis’s 'Flash Boys' and More 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z “There is no question that these shows are affecting the conversation about teen pregnancy and teen motherhood,” said Sarah Brown, chief executive of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Fighting Teenage Pregnancy With MTV Stars as Exhibit A 2011-04-08T22:20:42Z Peak Performances hosts the United States premiere of “M Stabat Mater,” a homage to motherhood by Ms. Oshman, an Israeli choreographer. 10 Dance Performances to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z That implies that motherhood is all a woman who becomes a mother is. Wanda, the MCU's Instagram boymom of “Doctor Strange” 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z And she must write intelligently about a time when, at least in matters of love, sex, marriage, motherhood, career and literary hero worship, she was not very smart at all. Books of The Times: A Young Muse in the Service of Male Writers 2011-03-20T21:14:14Z Rather than getting bogged down with distractions like crossover appeal and radio formats, she mined the emotional terrain of her last five years—heartbreak, divorce, motherhood—for something a little more raw. Jewel on Coping With Heartache: ‘I Peel Off Every Scab and Stick My Finger in Them’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z The latter narrative supposedly brings her from hideous one-night encounters to equally hideous longer relationships to a meaningful, fulfilling marriage and motherhood. Review | Christie Tate’s ‘Group’ is a sometimes salacious look at the secrets of strangers 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z Sometimes I felt like motherhood was a disability. My lessons in autism 2014-02-25T00:00:00Z Marriage equality doesn’t mean that, as Huelskamp fears, “motherhood is superfluous” or that we’re on the path to “further the destruction of the family.” Gays hate apple pie! 2013-04-01T19:13:00Z The magazine cheers the 47-year-old actress for the way she balances Hollywood, business and motherhood. Garner graces cover of People’s annual ‘Beautiful Issue’ 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Even as a pregnant woman, I learned quickly that professing anything other than ecstatic joy about impending motherhood resulted in uncomfortable silence and sideways glances. Mom, interrupted: Heather Armstrong's journey from mommy blogger to cautionary tale 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z The princesses, in fact, fare best: Fern and Cricket especially endear through their apt, universal observations on motherhood and childhood. 'Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty' is a charming summer tale of wealth and its loss 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Helen Simpson's short stories are packed with subtle, witty observations about motherhood and life with children. Eleanor Birne's top 10 books on motherhood 2011-03-30T15:44:16Z For parents of older kids, Brown’s suggestions may serve as quaint reminders of the cozy bubble of early motherhood, when problems seem solvable and the outside world has not yet broken in. Review | How can we better raise boys? A new book looks at where we’ve gone wrong — and how to fix it 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z “They think, ‘Oh, you can think it’s fine to do this stuff because you just have never experienced the bliss of being pregnant and motherhood,’ ” she says. Abortion rights leader’s pregnancy surprises opponents: ‘Is that real?’ 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Has any painter ever conveyed the shock, physical awkwardness and bewilderment of new motherhood so persuasively? Perspective | Alice Neel was the greatest American portraitist of the 20th century. Her work continues to astonish. 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z But just to stop the show from tipping into wonky overcompensation, it also set Hannah down a new path of experiencing endless inward-looking first world problems about motherhood. But did he die? TV's best and worst endings since The Sopranos 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z And maybe there’s something interesting about what motherhood looks like to someone who tells snitches “their bodies get dumped in the desert.” ‘UnREAL’ Season 2, Episode 8: ‘That’s Not This Story’ 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z The usually private Beyoncé bares her soul on the album, singing about a troubled relationship, black pride and motherhood in a brave way. Associated Press’ album of the decade: Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z “Memoirs about motherhood are exceedingly common, but ‘Women’s Work’ dares to explore the labor arrangements that often make such books possible,” our critic Jennifer Szalai writes. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z She has a business to run and she never asked for motherhood. The best child on TV is on "What We Do in the Shadows" 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z She seemed to steady herself by channelling her disgust into a direct appeal to Ivanka Trump, that professed champion of motherhood. At the Border, TV Networks Find Eloquence in Starkness, Speechlessness, and Disbelief 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Eventually, after conquering her constant fear of SIDS, she gets the hang of it — and finds in motherhood an unexpected peace. This Author Never Dreamed of Becoming a Mom. Until She Was One. 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z The “family” in question includes Delilah and Ruth, well-to-do adult white sisters, and their black teenage domestic worker, Zodwa, all of whom struggle with issues of motherhood over the course of the congested, overplotted narrative. In This Novel, a Black South African Becomes a Domestic Worker — in Her Son’s Home 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Postpartum anxiety is the subject of Sarah Menkedick’s searing new book, “Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America,” her second on motherhood. Is Fear the Last Taboo of American Motherhood? 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z I looked up after the busyness of prom, the high-decibel voices of Baltimore, the constant errands of single motherhood, and found myself sinking back into my chair. The church of the righteous armchair will set you free 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Is she dulling the pain of privilege and the numbing routines of motherhood? Review: ‘I Smile Back’ Traces a Mother’s Addiction 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z For her, the idea of motherhood, something that would narrow her universe to the care of one small person, loses its allure because of who she is. Te-Ping Chen on the Nihilism of the Internet 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z What do they matter to the whole of motherhood? When is a mother good enough? 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z Her trajectory from childhood to college, to marriage and motherhood, and ultimately to a career as a successful fiction writer, is fairly conventional in summary. ‘Lucy Barton’ Review: Laura Linney Finds Her Perfect Match 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z “Clutch your child close to your breast, woman. For the night is dark and full of terrors,” Melisandre said when asked to a recite an inspirational quote about motherhood. Watch Melisandre From 'Game of Thrones' and Seth Meyers Attend a Baby Shower 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Despite what seem like the trappings of a Lifetime movie, writer-director Claudia Myers presents us with an unflinching and complex character study of an imperfect woman juggling motherhood and her determination to succeed among men. 'Fort Bliss' a taut character study of female soldier in crisis 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z We have celebrated and supported each other through breakups, matrimony, motherhood and many baseball seasons. Can "stanning” be a form of recovery? Healing and trauma in fandom communities 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z “How could I let another woman walk through the terrifying abyss of motherhood without telling her the things I’d seen?” she says. This Ad Perfectly Captures the Horrors of New Motherhood 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z But as in many things involving motherhood, I was dead wrong. Mom’s lunchbox friend: Dip 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z But Heidi had her kid after years of frustration with the limits of heterosexual love; motherhood, for her, was a search for a way to make a new sort of family. Goodbye “Girls”: A Review of a Fittingly Imperfect Finale 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z I was 42 years old, and motherhood was something I wanted. Texas Monthly: Shawn Colvin Releases ‘Diamond in the Rough,’ a Memoir 2012-06-10T00:54:23Z Told with an allegorical ear, the story highlights the nature of inheritance and motherhood. A Visceral and Fabulist Short Story Collection Filled With Roots, Inheritance and Blood 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z In a 1977 interview with The New York Times Book Review she talked about how she juggled motherhood, her job at Random House and a part-time job teaching fiction at Yale. Toni Morrison Dancing: Photos of the Author at Work and Play 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z One of Vincent's concerns is the way that female dancers are "lost" to motherhood. Four women choreographers doing it their way 2013-04-28T08:00:00Z To look at the trajectory of nearly every woman in the public eye, bouncing back to “flaunt it” size is an expected part of motherhood. Why your post-baby body isn’t like Kim Kardashian’s 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Campbell is posing exciting and enduringly relevant questions here, about the price for women of achieving and sustaining professional success in a male-dominated world that sees motherhood as sacred. Review: Stockard Channing Is a Mother to Remember in ‘Apologia’ 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z The 13-episode first season follows the two women as they try to carry on the family legacy while juggling motherhood in Johannesburg. 'Being Mandela:' Granddaughters dish on show 2013-02-08T12:32:10Z In these photos, Wang asserts her active role in the making of another life, reframing motherhood as a grand creative endeavor. A Photographer’s Vision of Being a Mother and an Artist, Year After Year 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Now that she’s had some experience as a mother, “Hard Knock Wife” digs deeper into the theme of motherhood than “Baby Cobra” did. The Strategic Mind of Ali Wong 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z “And that isn’t that different than what you do in motherhood.” ‘Makes going to work look easy’: Decades before she was House speaker, Nancy Pelosi had an even harder job 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Snyder first enrolled at Rock Valley College in Rockford before dropping out partway through the semester because of the demands of motherhood and the stress of having recently moved. Simon assails community college grad rates 2012-01-19T03:00:00Z Its poems zero in on pregnancy and motherhood, but rarely transcend their maternal material. Books of The Times: Poems of Pain, the Raw and the Remembered 2011-02-09T23:57:30Z “And it’s a really nontraditional look at motherhood. Motherhood is more often than not, not the picture perfect journey we see on Instagram.” ‘I’m Your Woman’ puts a fresh spin on the 1970s crime drama 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z And, even if Sarah Greene as Amber periodically lapses into a repetitive sing-song, she captures exactly the way premature motherhood produces an enforced maturity. Review 2010-04-20T00:48:00Z While homeschooling her daughter, Angel, Garrison was introduced to fundamentalist Christian women who viewed motherhood as a mission field. Why Anna Duggar stays: "There's a huge martyr's mentality," a woman who left Quiverfull says 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Or perhaps Checkers was practicing her crawl for when motherhood called. At a South Florida hospital, heroes for the half-shell 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Why restrict redemption to the domestic choice of motherhood? ‘Rapture’ and ‘Heidi Chronicles’: Feminism then and now 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z “I couldn’t separate it out from the set of ‘normal,’ culturally and medically and socially solicited behaviors appropriate to new motherhood. Is Fear the Last Taboo of American Motherhood? 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z The scheming stepmother figure is her own mother, Pam, a cruel desperate woman who hates motherhood and farming. What if the Thief Who Steals Your Identity Is Your Mom? 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z “Different voices and perspectives are allowed to coexist, thus undercutting any universal truths about women and motherhood.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z The painting announces several Neel themes: motherhood, female agency, individual personality and the body. It’s Time to Put Alice Neel in Her Rightful Place in the Pantheon 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z But Harriet would have disliked those novels’ impious ruminations on motherhood, and probably also their authors. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z The practical and emotional support I received made my start to motherhood so positive that I retrained as a doula myself. Blood, sweat and faeces: why doulas aren’t just for wealthy women like Meghan 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The show takes on motherhood, sex, money troubles and mental illness with a startling honesty. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘SMILF’ and ‘Cash Cab’ 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z She defined what it meant to be a woman when she spoke about the impossible balancing act of work and motherhood. Perspective | Ketanji Brown Jackson did define ‘woman’ at her confirmation hearing 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The dispute touches on issues of motherhood in the workplace that have persisted in the dance industry, where many women say they feel pressure to delay pregnancy to avoid disrupting relatively short careers as dancers. Paul Taylor Dance Company Is Accused of Gender Discrimination 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z I read an interesting piece in the New York Times about motherhood not being a given. Kathleen Turner on loving Marvel and disbelief at Roe v. Wade repeal: "We are not simply vessels" 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Chastain, who rarely speaks about her private life, brought up her own family when she described how society judges women like Nora, who reject marriage and motherhood. Jessica Chastain Returns to the Stage With Nothing to Prove 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Bombeck’s description of motherhood did not mirror my own home life. Why Erma Bombeck is still the patron saint of motherhood comedy 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z “A woman should have the right to determine whether or not she wishes to be a mother,” he told the committee, a notion that dated to the voluntary motherhood movement of the early twentieth century. How choice won 2012-09-22T17:45:00Z Unfortunately, much of our culture’s focus new motherhood and pregnancy ends up revolving around women’s bodies and how they look. The Problem With Dolce and Gabbana's Motherhood-Themed Runway Show 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z It's a portrait of a saintly style of motherhood very few women would now aspire to, but Marmee is a tough character who inspires her daughters to want to do great things. Eleanor Birne's top 10 books on motherhood 2011-03-30T15:44:16Z In both films, the central mother figures are unprepared for their new roles — what’s more, in a disturbing blow to the patriarchal nuclear family, these women are ambivalent about motherhood itself. When Moms Attack 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z But I think it is ludicrous to suggest that only mothers can write credibly of motherhood. ArtsBeat: Leaning Toward the Light: Molly Ringwald Talks About Her New Novel 2012-08-15T15:45:38Z This collection of stories was born from a live event asking women to share their stories about motherhood—now the show happens in more than 20 cities across America. 13 Mother's Day Gifts for Book Lovers 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Maman turned the surrealist obsession with the male psyche on its head, creating a haunting image of motherhood – a spider carrying her eggs. The Tate Modern at 10 2010-05-04T07:00:00Z Ms. Roberts appeared in several more Broadway musicals of the ’40s, including “Marinka” and “High Button Shoes,” before settling into a life of marriage, motherhood, summer stock and regional theater. Joan Roberts, Heroine of Original ‘Oklahoma!,’ Dies at 95 2012-08-16T03:15:26Z Ms. Obama delves into her upbringing and childhood, her time as a lawyer in Chicago and her drive to balance work with motherhood. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and ‘Wonder’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z My mother never tired of telling me how harrowing her pregnancy and early motherhood was. My mom finally made her choice, after a lifetime colored by the one she wasn't allowed 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z For a third, Patti, who just made partner at a high-powered D.C. law firm, is leaving her job to prepare for motherhood. ‘The Religion Thing,’ From Project Y, at Cell Theater 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z She juggled work with motherhood, raising her children alone after she and Bumpus divorced in 1993 after a decade of marriage. Gayle King, Oprah's sidekick no more 2011-03-22T04:13:37Z But despite these layers of mothering and motherhood, Bennett doesn’t ignore the broader racial situation in the United States. ‘The Mothers’: A fantastic debut novel by Brit Bennett 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The title of the episode, “Milk,” suggests its interest in the primal business of motherhood; pretending to swoon with illness, Camille cries, “Mama!,” faking helplessness to effect a rescue. How the “Sharp Objects” Finale Sums Up the Show’s Excellent Feel-Badness 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z You don’t tell me your age, but I presume you must be nearing the time when motherhood will no longer be an option. My boyfriend spends all his time selling weed. Should I leave? | Dear Mariella 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z There's been a lot of attention — though not action — paid to the gender pay gap, but recent data suggests that it's largely morphed into the motherhood pay gap. What could millennials kill off in 2019? Weddings and becoming parents 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Yet this is motherhood as Martha Stewart-like fantasy, with a price tag for the one percent but pitched as obtainable to all. Motherlode Blog: Farewell, Dr. Spock. Hello, Snooki. 2012-04-30T18:47:31Z We cheered at this, perhaps because motherhood and football are very similar. Motherlode Blog: Making Youth Football Safer, Tackles and All 2013-09-08T12:24:45Z Among the show’s other preoccupations has been the notion that motherhood is rarely immune to delusion. Critic?s Notebook: Murder and Melodrama: An Obsessive Killer Is Revealed in a Stylish Whodunit 2011-06-19T22:08:38Z And a sweet recollection about the baby nurse who helped her through her first months of motherhood — five years after her mother died — is especially affecting. Review | Mindy Kaling’s new essays are lightweight entertainment for trying times 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z And I wanted to talk to you about that particular theme of motherhood — maybe as it relates to her, but maybe just in terms of why motherhood is an ongoing theme in “Pose.” On Toni Morrison, motherhood and "Pose": A conversation with Steven Canals 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Her poems tell of coming-of-age in the Watts neighborhood, her childhood victories over racist librarians and the joys and tribulations of single motherhood. Read Your Way Around Los Angeles 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z “You Are Free” explores issues like status anxiety and motherhood. Race Remixed: Pushing Boundaries, Mixed-Race Artists Gain Notice 2011-07-05T16:59:30Z Secondly, why was Palmer's motherhood called into question over an outfit? Jonah Hill's brand of soft boy misogyny is still misogyny 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Yet more and more women are opting for motherhood in the second half of life. The agony and ecstasy of becoming an older mother 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z But motherhood is only limiting if you allow it be. The Visions of Penélope Cruz 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z NDiaye’s novel succeeds so far, but falters at depicting the motherhood of its central character; it seems unsure about how such a mother ought to be. New French Fiction: From Farm to Table, With Feasting in Between 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Constrained by the demands of motherhood and the limited opportunities of the time, she must exercise her influence indirectly and stealthily. Review | Maggie O’Farrell’s ‘Hamnet’ reimagines the life and death of Shakespeare’s only son 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Which was good, because Almodóvar’s film introduced the theme of fraught motherhood which soon became a recurring feature. Venice: Women’s Stories 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z It’s more challenging to discuss motherhood, or an obsession with your own mother, in a Chelsea gallery. | Francesco Vezzoli's Temple of Obsession 2011-02-09T19:30:37Z I occupied an alternative reality, one that encompassed me and my baby and made sense of the onslaught that new motherhood brings. The everyday trauma of childbirth made me stop at one child 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z Doucleff yearns for the holy grail of new motherhood: a shower. How Do Maya Parents Handle Temper Tantrums? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z If there's been any elephant in any room, it's been on MTV, since the launch of the network's smash-success pair of reality series about teen pregnancy and motherhood. MTV's shockingly good abortion special 2010-12-29T15:20:00Z "Mrs. Maisel" has always taken a refreshingly different view of motherhood. "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" gives us a refreshing take on abortion, but how realistic is it 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Single motherhood among black women was never discussed as simply making the best decision for our families. Christopher Columbus Syndrome strikes again: No, white women did not “discover” single motherhood 2014-04-25T16:30:00Z Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Arab, and Middle Eastern women’s pregnancy and motherhood are similarly devalued under a variety of logics. The violent policing of Black motherhood: How and why cops target mothers of color 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Beyond Baby Mamas founder Stacia L. Brown has written for Salon about the dangers of leaving single moms of color out of discussions on motherhood. The right’s single-mom mistake: Why their latest attacks are clueless and doomed 2014-01-28T12:44:00Z Taxidermy, and by extension, art, does not come off well in Dahl’s story; it scans as sterile motherhood. Taxidermy Is a Metaphor for Our Time 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Anjum’s journey carries her through the streets of New Delhi, from the era of Indira Gandhi to the digital age, always in search of that role that will complete her — motherhood. Rigberto González on Arundhati Roy's 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness': dazzling but imperfect 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z At some point, “she has had to think expansively about motherhood,” another friend told me. Perspective | Kamala Harris knows things no vice president has ever known 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z From the royal Kate Middleton to the comic Tina Fey, new motherhood is the topic of the moment for women of a certain age. ‘The Mothers’: desperate measures in search of family 2013-04-10T18:11:16Z This includes Florida forebears, a Swiss boarding school education, Smith College, forays into the theater and fiction writing and then marriage and motherhood. For ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Fans, an Audiobook That Celebrates Madeleine L’Engle 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z If you can’t relate, perhaps it is because you are so smugly privileged that you can pay other women to perform the drudgery of motherhood for you. When Motherhood Is a Horror Show 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Though these mothers often carry past domestic traumas — abuse, neglect, infant loss — their stories signal that there is something psychologically harrowing about the role of motherhood itself. When Motherhood Is a Horror Show 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z But that’s all small fry compared with the worries I have about my “motherhood” diaries. Sex, drugs, honeymoon, motherhood – what if my child reads my diaries? 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z New motherhood is meant to be a communal journey, in which a mother is ushered into her role by family and friends who support her, guide her and witness her. The strange and lonely transformation of first-time mothers in the pandemic 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Five years ago, after she adopted her first child, Jackson, a reporter asked how she was adjusting to motherhood. Charlize Theron’s Sick Work Ethic 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z “There was still a lot in me to share outside of motherhood.” Mommy Blog or a Glossy Fashion Magazine? 2013-06-12T22:54:13Z Critics of the administration said it was hypocritical to condemn both abortion and single motherhood. That Time ‘Murphy Brown’ and Dan Quayle Topped the Front Page 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z She is a recovering bulimic and alcoholic who became sober for marriage and motherhood. Got Sober. Got Married. Got Shafted. 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Every inch of motherhood, for me, has been stitched with the essence of her. Our most dangerous hike 2012-05-21T01:00:00Z For instance, if it wasn’t apparent from the preceding 11 or so hours, this season is interested in motherhood, and this episode is determined to prove that point. 'Orange Is the New Black' Season 3, Episode 12 Recap: Clanging Themes 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z When it takes a hard look at the value women place balancing or choosing between motherhood and career, it’s actually good. “Big Little Lies” puts a basic cable story into a prestige package 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z That is surreal – motherhood remodelled to suit the marketplace. The agony and ecstasy of becoming an older mother 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z So I thought, 'The world of motherhood is a world that feels very, very familiar to me, and this is where I should go.' The rise of TV's "Anti-Mom" 2010-06-07T05:40:00Z Isabella also documents her age gap relationship and young motherhood on her YouTube channel. Couple with 33-year age gap says strangers, family struggle with relationship: 'We definitely get looks' 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z “Selfish” was the worst adjective that could be applied to a woman’s marriage or motherhood. "Queer Eye" for the purity culture survivor: On the Fab Five's healthy approach to being selfish 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z But performing motherhood is more complicated than that. “Transparent” tells the truth about being a mom: Motherhood is just as performative as gender 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z It’s refreshing to read about motherhood as stated in its baldest, truest terms, and Tessa’s struggles with the life/work balance are moving and all too real. The Struggles of Modern Motherhood in Essays, a Thriller and a Dystopian Novel 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z And I just think you’re going to be fighting about this and it will be destabilizing and upsetting and make it very hard for you to enjoy the early years of motherhood. My new hubby shoots upskirts 2013-03-05T01:00:00Z As Sarah’s reckless last-minute actions jeopardize not only her lifelong dream, but the mission itself, they also disappointingly undermine the movie’s own thesis: that the demands of motherhood and high-stakes careers are not mutually exclusive. ‘Proxima’ Review: Separation Anxiety 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z “Dear Scarlet” feels brave: Wong articulates sentiments that fly in the face of societal conventions about motherhood in a book explicitly created for her daughter to read. Graphic Novels With Fresh Voices From the Margins 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z The women in the comedy didn’t pretend motherhood was a picnic, but they were having fun anyway. When you’re pregnant, movies and TV constantly remind you of the worst-case scenario 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z I am prepared to admit that motherhood today is fraught … with whatever any individual mother decides it’s fraught with. Marissa Mayer’s new job 2012-07-17T23:13:00Z In this new collection, she examines motherhood, marriage and the pursuit of a life that’s good enough. Feel-good books to brighten your summer 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z On television, motherhood or aspiring to be a mother is seen as part of the normal order of things. The Baby Postulation: Is “The Big Bang Theory” formula potent enough to survive a bundle of joy 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z He didn't want to portray Martha struggling between motherhood and career. Silk series two: Costello as a role model ... and a night in the officers' mess 2012-05-18T11:57:00Z Her mother, Anouk, is a celebrated stage actress with an unsentimental, unconventional approach to motherhood. A Teenager Plays With Fire and Family Secrets in ‘The Margot Affair’ 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Freitas’s novel is structured like a prism, refracting the heroine’s life in different directions to raise questions about motherhood and female identity. New & Noteworthy, From Brilliant Essays to Stupid People 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z What kind of mother, during her performance of motherhood, would swim away from her daughter and enjoy herself all alone in the deep, her feet now up in the air as she attempted a handstand. When is a mother good enough? 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z Ms. Sperling’s program looks to the future as well as the past, for it includes “Not Here Yet,” a solo tribute to expectant motherhood, to be danced by Ms. Sperling, who is seven months pregnant. The Week Ahead: June 19 ? 25 2011-06-17T18:54:18Z Brutal questions emerge: What if you decline motherhood in favor of your art and your art turns out to be mediocre? Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z The root problem is that too many of the people whom we elect to power are shielded from the mess and stress of reproduction and motherhood. Perspective | A lot of powerful people seem to have no clue what motherhood means 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Even in this darkly comic rendering, motherhood is presented as a potential dilution of the legacy over which Swift has always exerted meticulous control. Taylor Swift, 30-Something, Is Revising Her Own Love Stories 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Yep, motherhood apparently means you now exist only as an accessory to your children, and you yourself are insignificant and inconsequential. Avoid playgrounds and eat the last biscuit: how to keep your sense of self as a parent 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z “Put simply, the breast as a symbol of life, motherhood and love.” This Thai Artist Marries the Sacred and the Sensual 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Such are the customs and rituals of motherhood on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, which Wednesday Martin, a social researcher, chronicles in “Primates of Park Avenue”, an amusing and occasionally incisive new memoir. Unnatural selection 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z There's an overriding sympathetic tone toward her life, her upbringing and her thoughts on motherhood. Head games in 'Her Story' will make you feel almost like a true detective 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z Played by a mesmerizing Teyana Taylor, Inez holds you rapt throughout this sweeping New York story of love and survival, motherhood and gentrification. ‘A Thousand and One’ Review: A New York Love Story 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z “Growth,” she captioned. “@ashleyjophoto thank you for capturing my journey into motherhood and my growing bump. These images mean so much to me.” Model Iskra Lawrence debuts baby bump with nude video, photo shoot 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z She performed this special while heavily pregnant, and digs more deeply into the themes of motherhood and childbirth. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife’ and ‘Little Women’ 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z The show is a not-quite-sendup of a genre that imbues the trials of motherhood with a paranormal charge. When Motherhood Is a Horror Show 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z I would not yield to any suggestion that my life or my body were lesser if they didn’t incorporate motherhood. My swimming odyssey: ‘It felt like a last chance to prove what I was capable of’ 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z I felt, more than ever before, the crushing burden of motherhood. Just Don’t Call Me Mom 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z “It’s having a mom who will not allow herself to live. If there’s anything ‘Untamed’ is doing, I hope it’s showing that martyrdom motherhood is not a badge of honor.” Doyle keeps ‘Untamed’ conversation going in journal, podcast 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z It's one of the hardships of new motherhood, of loneliness, of the limits of loyalty, of quitting the family business. Why can't we quit the royals? CNN's new series "The Windsors" show why they rule 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z And they've begun to redress the balance a little: after all, in real life motherhood is often happier than not. Eleanor Birne's top 10 books on motherhood 2011-03-30T15:44:16Z It is, instead, a dark and deeply disturbing exploration of something much more raw, and even radical: the notion that motherhood can plunder the self in irreparable ways. ‘The Lost Daughter’ Review: The Parent Trap 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z “Jane by Charlotte” sees Birkin at 74 and picks up on fixations of hers apparent in that earlier film — her love of bulldogs, photographs and motherhood — as well as her ideas about femininity. ‘Jane by Charlotte’ Review: A Mother-Daughter Duet 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Jenna Voorhees rejects motherhood and leaves her three children in the care of friends and relatives, never to live under the same roof with them again. Joyce Carol Oates’s Novel Plumbs the Depths of America’s Abortion War 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z It’s a somewhat unassuming gift, especially when compared with chocolates or heart-shaped jewelry bearing gemstones representing the months in which each of her children were born, and motherhood is its focus. 6 Comedy Shows to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z “Fiftysomething motherhood will only ever be a choice for the well-off,” she says. The surprising truth about becoming a mother in your 50s - from the women who know 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z But when Matsson mentions that he heard a rumor about her being pregnant, she concocts a version of motherhood where she is “emailing through her vanity cesarean” and her kid “will never see her.” ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 9 Recap: Dearly Departed 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z “Milla” is a major achievement, a film that is at once as delicate as it is strong, a fitting testament to motherhood, to survival. Review: ‘Milla’ Is a Stunning Ode to Children Who Become Mothers 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Over cappuccinos and sparkling water, Lopez and Banks traded stories about motherhood and how much they've changed since having little ones come in to their lives. A Minute With: Lopez, Banks on expectations when 'Expecting' 2012-05-16T11:55:13Z But that’s not all: As the book traces a daughter’s search for her mother, Semple draws us in deeper to the frighteningly large risks and rewards of motherhood, marriage and — best of all — storytelling. A Gone Girl Reading List: What to Pick Up After Finishing the Book (Or Movie) 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z The book’s timing also dovetailed with reinvigorated conversations about women, pregnancy and motherhood as the Supreme Court weighed the constitutional right to abortion. How to Get Published: A Book’s Journey From ‘Very Messy’ Draft to Best Seller 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Laurent: I was so amazed by her beauty and I was so amazed by her motherhood, the way she was talking about the kids and the way she was handled, everything. Q&A: Mélanie Laurent on her love of directing and actresses 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The actress also talked about balancing motherhood with her career as a movie star. Julia Roberts Can Still Recite Her Lines From "Pretty Woman" and "Notting Hill" 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z I agree: early motherhood is scrutinised and commercialised. Shattered: Modern Motherhood and the Illusion of Equality by Rebecca Asher ? review 2011-04-10T03:30:01Z What happens to motherhood when a robot can read a bedtime story to a child more entertainingly than Mom can, a reality Laura confronts? Review: ‘Humans’ Contemplates When Robots are Routine Accessories 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z I have thought often about motherhood and music these past months of her pregnancy. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2010-05-20T21:29:00Z When I ask the woman what she hates most about motherhood she laughs from her diaphragm. New York Playgrounds I Have Known 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Alongside the lavender scare and other war-time and Cold War era efforts to guard domestic normalcy, the mid-century resurgence of a hallowed, and anxious, vision of motherhood drove abortion underground. How choice won 2012-09-22T17:45:00Z Despite occasional shakiness, the novel’s portrait of motherhood stayed with me long after I put it down. ‘Bestiary’ Offers a Compendium of Creatures, and Generations 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Mary Shelley’s 19th-century novel “Frankenstein” is often seen as a metaphor for a woman’s fear of childbirth and motherhood. Television: ... And Baby Makes Reality TV 2011-01-21T17:40:59Z She joked that "motherhood is cake compared to what it's like to be a baby." Eva Mendes on baby's 'Hunchback' name, her 'wild nights' as a new mom 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z I become the person motherhood separates me from. ‘Get a lock on the bedroom door’: how to have a sex life when you've got children 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Maybe it’s the challenges of motherhood and marriage. After 21 years, this D.C. actress is enjoying a ‘season of firsts’ 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Who doesn’t adore at least one of the hundreds of movies in which a woman is transformed by motherhood and makes great personal sacrifices, or even dies, to save her child? How to argue with your relatives about abortion: A few arguments that don’t work with pro-lifers and some that might 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Although she writes powerfully of her Jewishness and her experience of motherhood, this aspect of her identity — of being the exceptional woman, of being establishment-approved — provokes her most fluent and furious prose. ‘Essential Essays’ Show Adrienne Rich’s Vulnerable, Conflicted Sides 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Flotard cites her father's death as one of the things that motivated her to work more passionately and to explore motherhood at 39, something she couldn't have imagined before. Visqueen calls it quits, but not Rachel Flotard 2011-11-24T01:47:42Z Over several painful hours, all of my angst about motherhood vanished. I didn’t want to become a mom — until I did 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z Yet that is when Ms. McCoy, a 45-year-old museum exhibit writer in Oakland, Calif., lies awake, debating and categorizing the details of working motherhood. Mothers and Sleep Medication 2011-11-04T21:17:55Z In a discussion of motherhood and beauty, both said their glow comes from the inside. Hawn and Hudson talk mother-daughter beauty 2013-05-08T18:32:08Z Called "Bey the Light," it touches on motherhood, connecting across generations, and on/offstage personas -- all expected subjects. Beyoncé, poet 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z When career-driven Miranda gets pregnant on “Sex and the City,” she gets as far as going in for the procedure before backing out and moving on to motherhood. “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” just gave us TV’s most real pregnancy plotline 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Her essays — about motherhood, faith and the screaming injustice of a regular life — are some of the steel beams that built this very site. Anne Lamott: “We stuffed scary feelings down, and they made us insane” 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Kimberly Seals Allers is a journalist and author of five books who writes about motherhood and the intersection of race, class and policy. Perspective | Worries over formula shortages have stirred interest in re-lactation. Here’s what to know. 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z The first winner was Margaret Goring, who was applauded by the judges for representing “the type of womanhood America needs. Able to shoulder the responsibilities of homemaking and motherhood.” What’s a nice lesbian like you doing at Miss America? Erin O’Flaherty’s historic quest 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z In “Sorrowful Soil,” Björk summons overlapping, antiphonal choirs for a prismatic yet coolly scientific consideration of motherhood: “In a woman’s life she gets 400 eggs but only two or three nests.” On ‘Fossora,’ Björk Is a Daughter, a Mother and a Universe 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z There are so many ways to do motherhood wrong, or so a mother is told. Mommy Is Going Away for a While 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z She needs to shut her mouth and concentrate on motherhood! Kelly Osbourne's no-holds-barred spat with Dannii the 'devil' 2010-09-23T19:00:00Z The main story, the part of the book that isn’t fantasy or flashback, is triggered by the end of Sunny’s five-year phase of motherhood and wig wearing. Books of The Times: ‘Shine Shine Shine,’ a Novel by Lydia Netzer 2012-07-04T21:05:09Z “Millennial moms are digitally savvy, globally conscious and defined by more than just motherhood, yet they are surprisingly underserved,” Brian Robbins, chief executive and founder of AwesomenessTV, said in a statement. AwesomenessTV announces launch of network geared toward millennial moms 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Instead, the first half of “Clock Dance” skates through the decades of Willa’s life, from childhood to motherhood to widowhood. Review | ‘Clock Dance,’ Anne Tyler’s 22nd novel, feels familiar — for better and worse 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Drop-out rates following motherhood may also be related to the lower rates of pay for women architects that make it hard for them to afford childcare. Zaha Hadid: Britain must do more to help encourage its women architects 2013-02-17T00:06:12Z Their discussion of the series, an autobiographically inspired comedy about an actress raising three daughters on her own, quickly evolved into a sardonic symposium on the indignities of motherhood. “Better Things,” Pamela Adlon’s Unlikely Ode to Single Motherhood 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z She's eloquent on the upheaval of motherhood, and on her anxieties about life as a single mum of one son. Shappi Khorsandi: Moon on a Stick ? review 2010-10-24T21:16:00Z Bourgeois came to artistic maturity long after motherhood, widowhood and menopause. Louise Bourgeois's greatest work of art 2010-06-06T21:29:00Z Ms. Meriwether is building a decidedly modern professional environment, too, working around the confines of motherhood and mining it for material. From a ‘New Girl’ to the Next One’s Champion 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Few women are rich enough to pass up a fifth of their lifetime’s earnings lightly, yet that’s the average cost of the career choices made after motherhood. I don't know how he does it! Meet the new superdads 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z Marlo is at risk of getting swallowed up whole by motherhood. After ‘Juno,’ Life’s Other Changes 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z My open access to free time, quiet and an uninterrupted bath seems like motherhood nirvana. Motherlode Blog: When Visitation Lasts All Summer 2012-08-26T22:00:38Z When I am let loose, given a little bit of money and space to tell the story I want to tell, it’s about motherhood. Maggie Gyllenhaal Has Dangerous Ideas About Directing 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z The mom goes on to chronicle the not-so-glamorous yet rewarding job of motherhood in somewhat graphic detail. Maternity leave is not a vacation, mom says in passionate LinkedIn post 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z While preparing for motherhood four years ago, the 30-year-old actress found her biggest challenge, was trying to find eco-friendly natural products for her baby and her home. Jessica Alba goes toxin-free with The Honest Company 2012-01-31T20:20:16Z For Ruhl, balancing a public life, motherhood and the demands of work brought to the fore some fundamental issues of the female experience. Review | Playwright Sarah Ruhl lost a vital part of her self, but her story is one of acceptance and hope 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Indeed, missing out on motherhood was another sacrifice for a woman who learned to challenge a multitude of dissatisfactions and frustrations into work. Peggy Siegal, Best Hostess in a Supporting Role 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z You write that the abortion debate suffers from “disregard for the seriousness of motherhood.” Changing the Debate: Katha Pollitt Talks About 'Pro' 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z At the heart of what makes Ana off-putting is her emotional detachment — even motherhood doesn't soften her — and that she remains an unrepentant slave owner. 'Conquistadora': an ambitious woman's conquests in 19th-century Puerto Rico 2011-07-27T19:36:05Z Our attention is focused on Rosamund's experiences of pregnancy and motherhood by removing her from other relationships. The Millstone by Margaret Drabble 2011-03-26T00:05:29Z Watching Haley, Brooke and Peyton move through the lows and highs of female friendship, of marriage and motherhood, was certainly entertaining, but also a source of hope. Actresses From ‘One Tree Hill’ Reunite. Cue the Healing. 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z Schultz, who co-founded the literary journal Joyland, may have pitched her novel with a wacky setup, but the story she tells has a lot more to do with motherhood, female ambition and women’s relationships. The world has a really bad hair day in ‘The Blondes’ 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z The marriage unraveled shortly after the publication of her third book, “A Frozen Woman,” in 1981, which explored her discomfort with marriage and motherhood. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Manson says when she made "that connection," she realized "the church believes essentially in forced motherhood." On abortion, "religious leaders should be asking for your forgiveness" — not the other way around 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z I’d watch TV shows on my computer, chat with people online, call old friends to drunkenly give them reports on the wonders of motherhood. My agnostic AA 2012-06-20T18:28:00Z Vardalos revealed that she was working on the script via Twitter in May, writing, "now that I'm experiencing motherhood I feel ready to write this next chapter." Universal to host 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2' 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Which for Ogawa — who uses she/they pronouns and is developing a play about motherhood called “Meat Suit” — it is decidedly not. What to Do With an Absent Father? Cast Him as a Character Onstage. 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Two new psychological horror films, “The Lodge” and “Swallow,” make motherhood look scarier than ever. Trump and Bloomberg’s Twitter Fight: ‘Like if a Rap Battle Was on CNBC’ 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z They have taken on many of the traditional functions of motherhood – cooking, cleaning, childcare – not to an equal extent and not to a sufficient extent, but most have tried hard. In praise of fathers, mostly 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Since that book was published, the fiery pianist has dabbled in musicals and classical compositions, and spoken even more frankly about feminism and motherhood. 13 music memoirs we’d like to read in 2017 by women and artists of color 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Though the book seems to be about an absent father, it’s more about a tricky mother, and about motherhood in general. A Teenager Plays With Fire and Family Secrets in ‘The Margot Affair’ 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Picturing her mother in the past, she defines motherhood generally in a distilled and perfect phrase: “a person whom I did not possess, who did not possess me.” When a Stroke Felled Her Mother, This Author Ran Away to the Circus 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Her latest film, a Netflix production released in cinemas on 21 December, is Bird Box, a dystopian thriller with a controversial depiction of motherhood. Hollywood must drop fixation wih beauty, says Night Manager director 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Both grapple with the angsts of motherhood, and share a distressing accident scenario: a woman letting an infant slip from grasp. The Tribeca Festival Returns in Full Bloom 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z “Baby fever” does a disservice to those of us who want in on motherhood for the long haul. Is “baby fever” killing my chance to have kids? 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Here, a young Ph.D. dropout negotiates the daily trials of motherhood and marriage against the overwhelming knowledge of planetary crisis. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z The ambivalence of motherhood is a touchy subject that violates one of our greatest taboos: not liking your children. The bad mother’s last refuge: Smashing the cult of mommyhood 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Davis puts a different face on single motherhood – a face that more closely resembles what single motherhood in America actually looks like. The right’s single-mom mistake: Why their latest attacks are clueless and doomed 2014-01-28T12:44:00Z This is to say that, for a long time, conflicting ideas about motherhood and all its attendant expectations were eating me up from the inside and I needed to write something about it. This Week in Fiction: Lauren Groff on the Cult of Motherhood 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z We asked some of the stars to share their own memories of bad motherhood. What Would Mrs. Brady Do? ‘Bad Moms’ Takes on Modern Motherhood 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z From an outdoor stage surrounded by redwoods in her California garden, Halprin has danced her life – motherhood, cancer, radical politics. Breath Made Visible: Anna Halprin - review 2011-07-07T21:56:00Z That dictum notwithstanding, she became his second wife in 1950; she accompanied him on expeditions around the world before devoting herself to motherhood. Lotte Hass, Pioneering Diver Known for Beauty and Bravery, Dies at 86 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Recent books on motherhood, however, frequently and sometimes unwittingly, illustrate a different phenomenon: how motherhood dissolves the border of the self but shores up, often violently, the walls between classes of women. In a Raft of New Books, Motherhood From (Almost) Every Angle 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z As the mother of a preschooler, Bonds is beautifully specific about the isolation and occasional despair of young motherhood. Review: In ‘Goodnight Nobody,’ a Getaway Goes Awry 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Her art is informed by mythology, fairy tales, literature, childbirth, motherhood and the magical way a chain of stitches can be transformed into whatever shape the imagination finds. Artist Mandy Greer molds the fiber of life 2011-11-30T23:49:57Z I’ll say that I expect motherhood to be very, very hard, but also as immense and rewarding and transformative and weird as everyone says it is. Perspective | The unreasonable expectations of American motherhood 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z The promised family help came less often than she expected, causing further stress and limitations to her young adulthood with motherhood as her new focal point. Why some Black churches aren’t elated about the possible end of Roe 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z And for all her pride in her motherhood, and for all her laments about not having had more kids, she was not maternal. T Magazine: Suddenly Susan 2011-02-25T17:39:23Z She said by email, “Linda Pastan writes about ordinary life — family, motherhood, aging, relationships, loss — in crystalline, transcendent verse often filled with humor, surprise, joy, and sorrow.” Linda Pastan, Poet Who Plumbed the Ordinary, Dies at 90 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z In her sleep-haunted early weeks of motherhood, Aoife found that her “digital baby” was providing her with more questions than answers. ‘You can track everything’: the parents who digitise their babies’ lives 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Although tonally distinct, both novels describe single working-class motherhood and small urban apartments in unflinching detail. A Japanese Literary Star Joins Her Peers on Western Bookshelves 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z There are the appeal and impossibility of assimilation, the all-consuming force of motherhood and the secret lives of teenagers and their parents, each unknowable to the other. In a Quiet Ohio Town, Who Started the Fire, and Why? 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Whenever there is a significant mainstream movie on motherhood, black mothers aren’t there. Motherlode Blog: Hollywood to Black Mothers: Stay Home 2012-06-19T01:02:47Z Love, motherhood, Black culture: She shows it all. Newly Published, From the Vanderbilt Family to the Former PepsiCo CEO 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z I am a different person, motherhood changes your DNA. NBC's 'Biggest Loser' adds teens; Michaels returns 2012-09-04T13:07:08Z But her selflessness in the service of evil acted as an allegory for motherhood. Camelot: episode 10 2011-08-05T21:01:01Z And someone like Wendy Davis putting a different face on single motherhood could finally be one way to ensure that the voices of single mothers are heard. The right’s single-mom mistake: Why their latest attacks are clueless and doomed 2014-01-28T12:44:00Z Not that religious themes are emphasized — several of the characters are vocal about their lack of faith — but they nonetheless hover around the everyday mysteries and miracles that Mr. Garcia finds in motherhood. | 'Mother and Child': Annette Bening in Rodrigo Garcia?s Study of Motherhood 2010-05-06T23:30:00Z Male and female, motherhood and fatherhood, are interwoven in The Big Music through the thread of love and its absence. The Big Music by Kirsty Gunn – review 2012-07-27T07:00:02Z But it’s not all politics; there are also Petri’s whimsical takes on topics like motherhood and child rearing. Fact or Farce? Alexandra Petri Thinks ‘Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why’ 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z None of this is to say that there aren’t successful and powerful women at CBS and throughout network news — including some who have managed to combine motherhood and career. Perspective | Amid misogyny and alleged abuse, it’s a constant struggle for women in network TV 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The show decided to stop being oblique about its intentions and murky about its existential philosophy and offered up a solid hour where themes of motherhood, family, imprisonment and faith reverberated throughout disparate storylines. Fear the Walking Dead: Season 2, Episode 12 — Pillar of Salt 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z Once an editor at a fashion magazine, Melissa decided to go freelance after the birth of her second child, picturing “a blissful new life of evenly balanced and creative working motherhood.” A Novel of Domesticity and Its Discontents, London-Style 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z And motherhood is our subject because, to some extent, it is also the film's. 'I had to put a lid on my grief ?' 2011-03-20T00:05:02Z She writes about the tedium of marriage and motherhood, the confusion and ambivalence over her first sexual experience, the grinding sadness of watching an elderly parent deteriorate. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z It was starting to look as if many women might put off motherhood indefinitely. The foul reign of the biological clock | Moira Weigel 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z My brother has two kids of his own now, and my motherhood urges have been transferred to them. Hilary Duff’s smoking outrage 2012-06-20T18:55:00Z Even without context, though, Seek beautifully expresses the universal experiences of loss and longing, and elucidates how adoption, and motherhood itself, is a lesson in holding conflicting realities at the same time. Amy Seek's 'Confessions of a Birth Mother' explores meanings of motherhood 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Such behaviour is not surprising given the menial status of motherhood. Should women really be rushing back to work after giving birth? 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z At first Amanda’s homecoming seems like a reaction to the particular traumas of early motherhood. Modern Mothers and Daughters, in Three Novels 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z This novel represents motherhood in quite a stark light.Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. Barbara Kingsolver: 'Motherhood is so sentimentalised in our culture' 2013-05-11T14:00:02Z The macabre “Washing Monsters” may comment on the challenge of motherhood without resorting to using women or children. Dana Schutz’s New Paintings Just Might Be Her Best 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Last fall she wrote in The Wall Street Journal about how today’s mothers invest too much of themselves in their children, and are “imprisoned by motherhood.” Motherlode: Choosing Motherhood Over Sex? 2011-07-12T15:15:13Z This latest, titled “Is Sex Passe?” suggests that women are giving up sex for motherhood, too. Motherlode: Choosing Motherhood Over Sex? 2011-07-12T15:15:13Z She gets the fulfilling career but at the price of losing a would-be fiancé, and she’s stuck in a role—motherhood—which she struggles to fully embrace. What the Fates of Joan and Peggy Say About "Mad Men’s" Stance on Feminism 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z And most of the books on the subject treat the challenges of home and work as largely domestic, and largely motherhood based. Forget the fights over housework: How couples who both work make it work 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z My daughter was five years old; the time demands of motherhood were still new for me. “Vagina voter”: Witnessing the sexism hurled at Hillary in ’08 — and the assumptions made about her supporters — changed my life 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Quayle said the show was glamorizing single motherhood and “mocking the importance of fathers.” Hillary Clinton jokes about email in 'Murphy Brown' return to TV 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z I decided to specialise in high-risk obstetrics, and for a long time I thought I’d be OK if I never experienced motherhood myself. Heal thyself: meet the doctors living with the conditions they treat 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Was there any truth in this in Kelly's experience of creative working motherhood? Jude Kelly: the ideal host for the first Women of the World festival 2011-03-04T07:00:03Z Her relinquishment of the dream of motherhood in “Bubbles” is both passive and filled with a quiet grief. Poet Paisley Rekdal should be better known, and 'Imaginary Vessels' may be the collection to do it 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z And as we continue to write about our careers and our attempts at motherhood . "That is the David Carr way": Erin Lee Carr on writing fearlessly on grief, addiction and her father 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z She tells her friends from art school that she’s “working on” something “about the wildness of motherhood,” which isn’t exactly a lie. Review | In ‘Nightbitch,’ a listless mother turns feral 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z It was unusual to see a pop superstar documenting their experience of pregnancy and early motherhood so publicly. Baby love: how pop stars embraced pregnancy 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z What all this meant for womanhood, and particularly for motherhood as it was understood in the postwar United States, remains central to the story. How choice won 2012-09-22T17:45:00Z We could also look at it this way: If you would applaud a man who speaks out against our culture’s motherhood defaults — and they are legion — then applaud women who speak out against housework defaults. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Feeling overworked at home? Don’t hesitate to speak out. 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z “One of the things I was interested in was motherhood as this place of self-creation.” Excellence Runs in the Family. Her Novel’s Heroine Wants Something Else. 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z Despite all of the ambient awareness about maternal mental illness and post-partum, and the horrific headlines that come along with it—the culture of motherhood can be all-consuming. Why the bathtub scene on last night’s “Homeland” was so uniquely disturbing 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z On this show, motherhood is where helplessness meets obsession, and control meets perversion. ‘American Horror Story’ Season 5, Episode 3: Mother Issues 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Even “Cow,” Andrea Arnold’s austere and upsetting documentary about the life of a British dairy cow, is, in large part, a meditation on motherhood. At the Telluride Film Festival, Both Magic and Normalcy 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Chelsea Clinton, who left her NBC job in late August to concentrate on the Clinton Foundation and motherhood, announced the pregnancy during a Clinton Foundation event in New York City in April. Chelsea Clinton, Marc Mezvinsky welcome a baby girl 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Second Acts in a New Worldby Sara Wheeler On beginning the book Wheeler herself knew "a little about the conflicting demands of motherhood, economics and sanity". O My America! Second Acts in a New World by Sara Wheeler – review 2013-04-06T15:00:01Z It was also with motherhood in mind that Pink wrote the MTV V.M.A.s speech that she delivered last month while accepting the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award. Pink Quietly Became Pop Royalty. Here’s How She Made It Last. 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z He found another way of depicting women as put-upon victims of selfish, greedy, cruel and no-count men, and reason for empowering them — single motherhood. ‘The Single Moms Club’: Tyler Perry wedded to a tired formula 2014-03-14T16:00:45Z The recent films "Evil Dead Rise" and "Clock" present impending motherhood as sources of power and fury, but like the sexual violence tropes of yore, they dwell in dangerous and unrealistic absolutes. From “Evil Dead Rise” to “Clock,” motherhood is horror, but how we talk about it is worse 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z Her newest is strange, enchanting and funny: a work about motherhood, doom, regret and the magic — dark, benevolent and every shade in between — of words on paper. Louise Erdrich’s ‘The Sentence’ Considers the (Literally) Haunting Power of Books 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z AN: Whenever we’re talking about life and the beginning of life and the making of life – motherhood, essentially – we’re talking about death. This is what midlife looks like for women 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z On motherhood, and why “every mother needs a wife:” Here Are Some Sex Tips From Amy Poehler's New Book (Plus Insight on Motherhood and Divorce) 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z That’s new motherhood for you, Mayer — a depressing, discombobulated, emotional struggle that you really ought to take some time to revel in. Hey, moms: Hush up! 2012-07-18T19:45:00Z Why do think motherhood was so important to her? In ‘Master of None,’ Naomi Ackie Tells a Story ‘I’ve Never Really Seen’ 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z One of the sisters grows up to settle uneasily into spinsterhood; the other into marriage and motherhood, also uneasily. ‘Booth’ Pushes an Assassin Off Center Stage 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Although the sculpture might seem to directly refer to abortion, Smith said she prefers to think of it as an expression of “my ambivalence about motherhood.” After Decades of Silence, Art About Abortion (Cautiously) Enters the Establishment 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z Loosely inspired by a self-help book, 2012’s What To Expect When You’re Expecting, a broad, fitfully patronising comedy did at least acknowledge that both pregnancy and motherhood come in many forms. From Rosemary's Baby to Bridget Jones: a quick scan of pregnancy on film 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z As far as procreation, I needed a second gamete and I would be on my way to motherhood. What Is a Man For? 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z For decades, social conservatives have wrongly seen fatherlessness as a family crisis, bemoaning divorce and out-of-wedlock motherhood, and devising policies that support “traditional” families – as they define them, straight, married and mortgaged to the hilt. Why I don't have a child: I cherish my freedom 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z One who has kept her kept her trademark sense of wonder through her new adventures of love, marriage and motherhood. Tracy Clark-Flory: "Our culture is totally ignorant around the realm of sexual fantasy" 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z One of the most challenging aspects of this experience, for me, was the shame of not feeling “normal,” “natural,” or possibly even ready for motherhood. Perspective | Ask Amy: Ghosted friend struggles to cope at church 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Li wrote “Where Reasons End” in the months after losing her own son to suicide, and the responsibility the fiction writer takes on here mimics that of motherhood, a recurring concern for her. A Grieving Mother Converses With Her Dead Son in Yiyun Li’s New Novel 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Like Brecht’s “Mother Courage and Her Children,” “Chalk Circle” weaves motherhood into politics and the brutality of war. At the Salzburg Festival, Bertolt Brecht Will Keep Confronting Chaos 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Additionally, pregnancy and motherhood served as a tool of punishment for Black women. The violent policing of Black motherhood: How and why cops target mothers of color 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Stefani, listed as lead writer on every track, seems unburdened by the usual things women worry about in their 40s — their careers, motherhood, aging, ISIS. Gwen Stefani digs into relationships old and new on first album in 10 years 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z It denies the fact that it’s possible to love your kids but hate being a mom, sometimes or all the time, or even regret motherhood. Stop pressuring women to be moms: It’s insulting to assume we all want the same thing 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z These ordinary women faced an extraordinary ordeal, defining the very essence of motherhood as they rewrote the history of a new nation. Motherlode: Parenting in a Prison Colony 2011-04-08T16:53:27Z Second, Wang got pregnant herself, and instantly saw motherhood through fresh eyes. One Child Nation: looking back at China's horrifying policy 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Miller, 33, spoke about film choices, motherhood and playing real people. A Minute With: Sienna Miller on acting, 'American Sniper' 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Eventually she gets used to the upheaval that is single motherhood, feeling "happy and unhappy at the same time." 'The Story of the Lost Child' is a masterful conclusion to Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z The friends discuss the challenges of motherhood, as well as of marriage. Review | A good-hearted mother faces the ultimate betrayal in the twisty novel ‘Our House’ 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Despite her acclaim, Ms. Ajemian was of a generation in which even the world’s most accomplished women were characterized by the news media in terms of marriage, motherhood and the innermost contents of their closets. Anahid Ajemian, Violinist and New-Music Champion, Dies at 92 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z I know, too, that motherhood can bring a sort of violent, overwhelming love that feels like being encased in metal and dropped into a deep sea. ‘Get a lock on the bedroom door’: how to have a sex life when you've got children 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z All he knew of my path to motherhood was that I wanted a child. Seeking a Father for My Child (Relationship Optional) 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z She credits motherhood with propelling her into the dramatic lead roles in Wagner and Strauss she is now known for. What Opera Singers Gained, and Lost, Performing While Pregnant 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Single motherhood, and the biological drive to reproduce, are the issues that attracted Aniston to the project. 'Mr. Right' gets modern makeover in "The Switch" 2010-08-18T20:00:00Z There is reproductive advantage in good motherhood, in other words. Jane Goodall: 50 years working with chimps 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z You investigated the female nude through your own eyes, and then, with the birth of your two children, you explored another theme of classical painting: motherhood, but depicted by an artist who’s actually experienced it. Jenny Saville’s Nudes Bring Renaissance Masters Down to Earth 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z As she writes in the introduction, “I felt blindsided by motherhood.” Laura Prepon Meditates on Motherhood and Clay 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Not one episode — nor any significant scene — examines Elizabeth’s feelings about motherhood or the traveling that took her away from her children for weeks and months at a time. Netflix’s ‘The Crown’ is best when viewed like separate little movies 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Alice Diop’s meticulous courtroom drama — an inquiry into motherhood, migration and the gaps between juridical and psychological truth — is the most intelligent film of the year. These Would Be Our Oscar Nominations 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z To be fair, I am a first-time parent and have no institutional memory of motherhood. Is Fear the Last Taboo of American Motherhood? 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z As Christmas approached, so did motherhood—a looming transformative force, which I often referred to as the Black Hole. How I found Christmas again in Grandma Ruth's peanut butter balls 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Female comics riff on marriage, motherhood, etc., in this new unscripted series. TV This Week May 10 - 16: 'Bessie' on HBO 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z The world is yet to be shaped into a supportive structure for women who choose motherhood. I thought I was career-driven, but I can’t bear to leave my baby | Dear Mariella 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z In "Ticket to Paradise," Georgia being forced to choose marriage and motherhood over her career early on is a key part in why the older couple didn't work out the first time. We need gender equality to make a rom-com work 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z She also uses motherhood to jab at the backlash to the #MeToo movement. Amy Schumer Doesn’t Care What You Think (That Much) 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Sounds like a nice Friday, but it's not a nuanced view of single motherhood. Wanda, the MCU's Instagram boymom of “Doctor Strange” 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Armstrong is divorced now; like motherhood, separation became an unexpected topic of fascination among Dooce readers. Heather Armstrong: the original mommyblogger? 2013-07-25T15:31:00Z It also often occurs to me how grateful I am to the woman who loved me fiercely enough to remain true to who she was, even in the complicated throes of motherhood. Our most dangerous hike 2012-05-21T01:00:00Z The wide-eyed mother, exhausted and frightened of dropping the infant propped on her lap, is as unsteady at this stage of new motherhood as the baby itself. Alice Neel: Painted Truths 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z AUSUBEL: Revolution, 1970s wallpaper design, pregnancy and motherhood, guilt, my grandfather’s sailboat, the idea of California, the money that no longer is. Don’t call Emma Cline’s book “luminous”: The word “seems only used to describe writing by women” 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z These installments, each five minutes or so, are sketches of motherhood in hipster land, droll and kind of bittersweet. Mother: Television’s Favorite Role 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z It was a staggeringly stressful time in my marriage and early motherhood, one in which I often felt lonely and isolated. I’m not running scared: On Mollie Tibbetts and rejecting the fear of jogging alone 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z A: Is there a topic any more polarizing in motherhood? She’s feeding her baby formula. And the in-laws won’t shut up about it. 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Her finest performances on Tuesday evening at Birdland were of familiar songs that she turned into heartfelt reflections on motherhood. Music Review: Jane Monheit at Birdland 2013-05-24T20:16:15Z The “momcation,” for the uninitiated, is a temporary escape from the demands of modern motherhood. American mothers need a break. But is the ‘momcation’ a solution to their problems or a symptom? 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Talulla has a conflicted view of motherhood, and even fears inflicting violence on her own children. ArtsBeat: Werewolves, Vampires and Shrinks, Oh My: Glen Duncan Talks About 'Talulla Rising' 2012-06-27T14:52:44Z A few days later, the Australian fashion designer also unveiled a look of a different kind: motherhood. When the Romance Ends, but the Brand Goes On 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z I wanted to insure motherhood in the face of dating roulette. Swiping right in the fertility doctor's office: On pursuing romance and single motherhood at once 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z There, Rose embarked on motherhood and entertaining, and typed her husband’s manuscripts. Memoir of a ‘Very Large Life,’ With Poetry, Crusades and Glittering Names 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z The couple had been struggling at the time with Natalie’s balance of work and motherhood. 'A short but vibrant life': revisiting the life and death of Natalie Wood 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Did they come into the project understanding motherhood? Kathryn Hahn Would Like Moms to Stop Judging Themselves 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z But, as the woman's racked story of motherhood, female friendship and love tumbles out, it is she who is being judged. The List – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-29T09:13:55Z The first year of motherhood hit me like a ton of bricks. How I found Christmas again in Grandma Ruth's peanut butter balls 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z However, the announcement has revealed yet again the lack of real debate around much older motherhood, a business pregnant with complications. The agony and ecstasy of becoming an older mother 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z “The very word looks so much like ‘motherhood’ that it would set off a whole lot of alarm bells,” said Professor Lakoff, referring to women who might be grappling with becoming a parent. Zeroing In on the Female Traveler 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Although she has a job, she has no aspirations for a career, confident that motherhood is her true calling. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z The celebrity not only carries out the reproductive and care-taking labor of motherhood, but also transmits a performance of that identity to followers. Celebrity Pregnancy Is Big Business 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z An "egg donor" who is being paid, she points out, isn't a donor; and "there is nothing 'surrogate'" about "surrogate motherhood" – "The best term is the one few will tackle: 'baby-selling'." Non-fiction roundup – reviews 2012-08-24T07:00:04Z Out of desperation, she puts her two sons in foster care, afraid that she cannot feed them — though some might say she chooses photography over motherhood. Review | How Dorothea Lange ended up capturing the Great Depression — and becoming an influential photographer 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z And, of course, she couldn't aspire to a happy relationship or motherhood because she was too busy getting slaughtered on merlot and losing all self-respect in a series of depressing one-night stands. How TV portrays office culture 2012-10-09T19:00:04Z There was an unspoken suggestion that prison or gym-slip motherhood was the likely life progression for a large percentage of the school population. My belated thank you to Liz Lochhead 2012-08-17T13:00:01Z The toxic, mixed messages around motherhood start early. Mother's Day is gaslighting 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z No wonder motherhood is all too often an exercise in social and psychological schizophrenia for the newly initiated. Spike heels, sex and strollers: I’m tired of lady mags pretending that motherhood doesn’t exist 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z Shows with strong female protagonists routinely fall back on motherhood as the character’s prime motivator as well as her most vulnerable flaw. Perspective | In ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘Homeland,’ two heroines judged by their devotion to motherhood 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Her satire is awash with the themes of race, religion, millennial wokeness and motherhood. Aida Rodriguez Wants You to Laugh at the Pain 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Perhaps Audrain’s novel is striking a nerve with a younger generation of women exhausted by the “monstrous,” pressures of contemporary motherhood — “the push” to be unflagging, hands-on nurturers. Review | Why is ‘The Push’ so popular? Perhaps because it plays into a mother’s worst fears. 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z That Davis has made single motherhood such a prominent part of her story is significant because Davis doesn’t fit the conservative stereotype of a single mother. The right’s single-mom mistake: Why their latest attacks are clueless and doomed 2014-01-28T12:44:00Z Wos escaped lightly in comparison, and her severe, elegiac account of the symphony's three mournful texts about motherhood showed no signs of travel fatigue. LPO/Alsop; Var?se 360? 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z Hollywood to Black Mothers: Stay Home The movie “What To Expect When You’re Expecting” was, sadly, exactly what I expected: devoid of any real representation of African-American motherhood. Motherlode Blog: Hollywood to Black Mothers: Stay Home 2012-06-19T01:02:47Z Because abortion undermined their understanding of motherhood and family and constituted the taking of a “life,” for them it could never be the basis for women’s equality. How choice won 2012-09-22T17:45:00Z Her gaze is confident, a symbol of black motherhood, beauty and pride. Black Beauty: Photography Between Art and Fashion 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Is she really prepared for single motherhood — and for the ambiguities of neonatal science? In ‘Precious Little,’ a linguist grasping for the right words 2013-08-08T19:43:11Z It’s a weighty record that tackles death, her struggle adjusting to motherhood and, of course, forgiveness. Brandi Carlile, in high spirits, delights hometown crowd at Seattle’s Moore Theatre 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z While Mrs. Smart wanted a family and a stable relationship, she was unprepared for their background differences and for the changes motherhood would bring to her career aspirations. After the Guests Have Left 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z It is a wistful, angry, vivid piece about motherhood as loss of freedom, as isolation, as house arrest. Smother 2010-05-15T23:08:00Z I was touched by those who shared their testing journeys to motherhood. What shall I do with the sympathy cards people sent when my baby died? 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z In a confessional interview with Pitchfork, Björk spoke about heartbreak, creating the new album, motherhood and most strikingly what it’s like to be a woman in the music industry. Björk on being a woman in music: “Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times” 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Last evening I was at an event on motherhood and writing, and the novelist Martha Southgate spoke about how she’d written a very personal essay about her son when he was in elementary school. Internet doomsday, explained 2012-05-16T11:45:00Z Kovac, an occasional blogger for Open Salon, certainly has very deep reasons for her convictions about motherhood. Motherhood isn’t the path to enlightenment for all women 2013-01-24T21:10:00Z It involves cultivating a sense of self that is has little to do with the motherhood, daughterhood, wifehood or friendship that society calls “womanhood.” Wild and the Rise of the Lone She-Wolf 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z One of my most miserable memories of early motherhood was inflicting Gina Ford’s Contented Little Baby regime on my admirably resistant newborn. How to get your kids to 18, sane and not hating you 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z A big part of motherhood, for better or worse, is caring for another life more than your own. Wanda, the MCU's Instagram boymom of “Doctor Strange” 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Audrain’s debut is a tense, chilling dip into the dark side of motherhood, narrated by Blythe, whose own upbringing raises the question: Can one inherit an inability to parent? What to read in 2021 based on what you loved in 2020 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z And he finds clever ways to underline his theme of motherhood in extremis, such as when a phone call from Mom stops the action at a crucial point. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Zombeavers’ and Other Midnight Offerings at Tribeca Festival 2014-04-17T22:08:08Z I understand why our society fears single motherhood. Motherlode Blog: What's Worse Than Being a Single Mother? 2012-05-22T21:53:10Z Article 25 says motherhood and childhood are entitled to special assistance, and all children enjoy the same protections. Broadcast drew Redgrave to child rights 2010-11-30T21:46:00Z The script, based on her experience with pregnancy and motherhood, became 1989’s surprise hit “Look Who’s Talking,” about an infant’s inner monologue. You can direct a movie while pregnant. But Hollywood’s not going to make it easy. 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Adoption was poorly regulated in Australia, and unmarried motherhood still carried social stigma. Growing up with The Family: inside Anne Hamilton-Byrne’s sinister cult 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z It's about anti-choicers spreading the myth that abortion is incompatible with motherhood. Michelle Williams speaks a crucial truth: Abortion isn't the enemy of motherhood 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z As the nation celebrates independence, the women grapple with motherhood, ambition and intimacy and aim for their own sense of freedom. Live Performance in New York: Here’s What to See This Spring 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z She plans to release her next feature-length documentary about motherhood, “Every Hour, Every Mile, Every Mother,” another collaboration with Citizens of Humanity, sometime next year. | Christy Turlington Burns and Citizens of Humanity Promote Maternal Health 2013-08-19T19:00:15Z She was looking for a way to help women ease the sometimes difficult transition to motherhood after birth. ‘Are you going to eat that?’ When it comes to placenta, the answer is increasingly ‘yes’ You think of motherhood as an obliteration of identity. Isn't that selfish? Introducing our new series on childfree women 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Is there something about motherhood that fiction doesn't like? Eleanor Birne's top 10 books on motherhood 2011-03-30T15:44:16Z With time though, her stance changed, and increasingly she considered the possibility of single motherhood. The love at the heart of our family’s wartime secret 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Despite the characters’ ambivalence about motherhood, Whittall has written a competent and highly readable testament to the strength of the maternal bond, even after years apart. New Fiction About Family Members Gone Missing 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z T: Did motherhood transform the work you were making? Two Pioneering Artists Discuss Motherhood and Machismo 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Spinning on an axis of anxiety, “Huesera” raises the provocative idea that motherhood can feel akin to a curse stripping one of stability and sacred autonomies. The Tribeca Festival Returns in Full Bloom 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z That context is hard to separate in a fashion show — which displays women’s clothing on women’s bodies — that also tries to honor motherhood, no matter how well-intentioned. The Problem With Dolce and Gabbana's Motherhood-Themed Runway Show 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z It’s an examination of Black motherhood in America that more people need to see than could come together in a theater in the foreseeable future. Perspective | If classical music keeps one thing from the pandemic, let it be the opera short 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z "I’m here in the context of Kung Fu Panda; I’d rather not get into such a heavy issue," said the actress, who also fielded questions about China, women, tigers, and motherhood. Your guide for what not to ask actors at Cannes 2011-05-13T16:14:00Z As a child, I belonged to an immigrant community that viewed marriage and motherhood as a woman’s primary goal in life. When Marriage Is Just Another Overhyped Nightclub 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z She refuses to contemplate motherhood, even though her husband wants children, because she doesn’t have the desire to take on the responsibility of generation. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z She feels stifled by cleaning, “that life-usurping, burdensome act of servitude and futility,” and by motherhood, which she deems “an obliteration of the self.” In “Ordinary People,” Diana Evans Blends Domesticity and Celebrity, with a Gothic Twist 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Growing is a restatement of what Schumer does best: there are no new directions, but it proves that even on the precipice of motherhood, she is still the daddy of carnal standup. Growing: Amy Schumer is the daddy of carnal standup 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z The actor explained to People that motherhood has significantly affected her "growth" and decision-making. Laura Prepon has left scientology: “We’re all evolving” 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Even the way that Webster has been directed to stand and hold her baby feels unimaginative—a vignette, of sorts, of endangered motherhood, that indicates little interesting about her, her baby, or the scene itself. Feed Ramsay Bolton to the dogs already: “Game of Thrones”’ biggest villain should be more interesting than this 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Earlier this week it was reported she is to reunite with Young Adult director Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Cody for a film about motherhood. Charlize Theron to star in Fast and Furious 8 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Join the fight for our reproductive rights, so we can decide when and if we choose motherhood, safely. Motherhood isn’t the “world’s toughest job” 2014-04-15T14:12:00Z Not only does that memoir, like “The Crying Book,” describe pregnancy and childbirth but Nelson, like Christle, has thought deeply about how motherhood can both shape a woman’s identity and dissipate it. “The Crying Book” Reveals How Tears Can Help Us, and How They Can’t 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Her distinguished husband is narrow-minded and restrictive, and she finds motherhood numbing. Elena Ferrante’s ‘Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay’ 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Dear Carolyn: As my spouse and I decide when to have children, I find myself, the female partner, ambivalent about “motherhood.” Ambivalent about motherhood and wondering whether she’ll get over it 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z If "Evil Dead Rise" takes an outdated and simplistic view of motherhood, "Clock" is an overcorrection that runs us off the road. From “Evil Dead Rise” to “Clock,” motherhood is horror, but how we talk about it is worse 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z But it is also, for all its rude pleasures, a gutting examination of the crucible of motherhood. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z When we talk about motherhood, we think of something warm. "Four Daughters" seeks to understand radicalization by ISIS: "People can go to the side of darkness" 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Did you have any reservations about having Hannah grow up through motherhood, which is this very conventional idea? Lena Dunham on the ‘Girls’ Finale and That Last Shot of Hannah 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Though she is young—her body lithe, her skin smooth—Diamond’s bearing suggests a slight dowdiness, of the sort one might encounter in stock images labelled “motherhood.” The Women Who Mother Lifelike Baby Dolls 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Grace and Hunter are not demons but martyrs, sacrificed to the feminine ideal of motherhood despite their independent desires. When Moms Attack 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Ari’s ideal of motherhood is a gentle, nurturing feminist utopia, one she passionately espouses and unsteadily embodies through all the modern hippie-mom tropes. A mother’s fury: ‘After Birth,’ a novel by Elisa Albert 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The collection includes poems about Trayvon Martin and Etan Patz, whose slayings shocked the nation, as well as pieces about motherhood and harrowing recollections of the abuse Olds experienced as a child. Review | Three new poetry collections grapple with injustice, grief — and the nature of truth 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z But first, the books — radiantly specific dispatches from almost every corner of motherhood. In a Raft of New Books, Motherhood From (Almost) Every Angle 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z She also considers the language of motherhood and the “fusion of artistic forms made manifest through the lens/ of protection.” Review | Joy Harjo’s stunning new collection and other best poetry collections this month 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z “The Heidi Chronicles” unfolds episodically from the 1960s to the 1980s, showing Heidi at varying stages of hopefulness and disappointment about feminism, politics, men and motherhood. Elisabeth Moss in Talks to Star in 'The Heidi Chronicles' on Broadway 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z This chilling debut novel follows Blythe Connor as she struggles adapting to the realities of motherhood, a disconnect with her newborn daughter and the seismic changes in her relationship with her husband. New in Paperback: ‘Of Women and Salt’ and ‘Drug Use for Grown-Ups’ 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Both activities went against her mother’s wishes, the first because she felt it was unladylike to sweat, the second because it signaled career aspirations other than marriage and motherhood. Dina Merrill, actress and philanthropist of aristocratic poise, dies at 93 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Neal had her own unique strength; she forced herself to live, to return to motherhood, to relearn the rudiments of her craft and dig inside to find the art buried in there. Patricia Neal (1926-2010): A Life of Tragedy and Triumph 2010-08-11T08:40:00Z But motherhood, I was told, was a gift from God. Why hadn’t I read about the scary side of parenting? 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z The personal experience on which Unexpected is based is a combination of Swanberg’s time spent as a teacher in Chicago’s west side and her experiences juggling work and motherhood. This Movie Is Changing the Way Pregnancy Is Shown on Film 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z "My childish fantasy of motherhood was soundly corrected as I weighed answers to their very precise questions," she wrote. "I have no regrets": Uma Thurman shares her teenage abortion story in criticizing Texas ban 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z We think of one of the defining characteristics of motherhood as nurturing. The superpower of “She Said” is also its undoing: Motherhood 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z The writer and comedian Christina Pazsitzky gets real about motherhood, giving birth and her own childhood in this new stand-up special. What’s on TV Tuesday: The BET ‘Hip-Hop Awards’ and ‘The Flash’ 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Family in general and motherhood in particular are primary subjects in the main survey, starting with a 1983 quilt made by Joyce and Elizabeth Scott that offers a loving portrait of the extended clan. Inspired by Harriet Tubman, an Artist Takes Glass to Extremes 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z The movie shows how the two women face difficulties with motherhood and confront race and identity. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Riverdale’ and ‘Royal Crackers’ 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Salon spoke recently with Lowe, a veteran of other darkly comic works including “Sightseers” and “Hot Fuzz” about murder, moviemaking and motherhood. “We have the power to create as well as to destroy and that’s frightening to people.”: Alice Lowe director of “Prevenge” on murder and motherhood 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Women gained new freedoms in the marketplace, but feminists did not fully resolve the dilemmas of motherhood or win political support for new initiatives to support it. How choice won 2012-09-22T17:45:00Z There is this very beatific vision of what motherhood is, very placid, calm, serene and nurturing. Julie Delpy on breaking motherhood taboos in "My Zoe" & seeing the last of the "Before" franchise 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z It did not attempt to understand pregnancy or motherhood. Perspective | A lot of powerful people seem to have no clue what motherhood means 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z While it sometimes can veer into familiar territories of sitcom schmaltz, Better Things offers essential fresh takes on motherhood, Hollywood and the vagaries of teenage life. Better Things and Atlanta: FX delivers fresh new comedy voices 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Trained as a lyric soprano, Ms. Juntwait aspired to be an opera singer but found that the profession did not accommodate the demands of early motherhood. Margaret Juntwait, host of the Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday matinee radio broadcasts, dies at 58 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The pictures, including some with the couple's 5-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy, were accompanied by poems about motherhood. Beyonce bares all in pregnancy photo shoot 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z In the early months, motherhood is a breeze. Motherlode: Learning About Loss 2011-04-26T20:00:10Z "If motherhood has taught me anything so far, it's that something can work out for a period of time and then you move on and evolve from that," Prepon said. Laura Prepon has left scientology: “We’re all evolving” 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z We spoke with Reiner about “Egg” and the importance of telling different stories about motherhood. In ‘Egg,’ questions about parenthood might make audiences uncomfortable. That’s the idea. 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Friedman’s poetic novel explores mourning, memory and motherhood in a future Louisiana that has been ravaged by climate change. When the Past Can’t Be Buried: Debut Novels Dredge Up Old Ties 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z She juggled work with motherhood, raising her children alone after she and Mr. Bumpus divorced in 1993 after a decade of marriage. The Sidekick No More 2011-03-18T21:29:03Z Trading does seem like small change relative to the rich rewards of motherhood. Motherlode Blog: Breast Feeding Killed My Focus on Work. I Don’t Miss It. 2013-06-04T20:39:57Z Her characterization of younger women as “obsessed with motherhood” especially stings. Motherlode: Choosing Motherhood Over Sex? 2011-07-12T15:15:13Z It's the most chilling account of motherhood since Rosemary's Baby. The welcome return of Lynne Ramsay 2010-04-22T11:41:00Z Many characters who appear in the lead and supporting actress categories are to some extent defined by their motherhood. ‘The messier, the better’: The righteously angry women who dominate this year’s Oscars 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z “What happens in the book is fiction, but I did draw from my own experience of certain emotions and the day-to-day life of motherhood,” she said. Ashley Audrain’s Best Seller Goes to a Place Most Parents Have Never Gone Before 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z But some of the customers of HOTmilk and its ilk said that they were still interested in sex, despite the demands of motherhood. Nursing Bras That Show Mothers in More Than ?Work Mode? 2011-08-31T23:07:43Z And she's willing to be completely transparent on topics near and dear to the heart of women, including motherhood and body image. You're Not the Boss of Her: Tina Fey's New Memoir 2011-04-04T10:10:00Z Even “Bad Moms,” a comedy about the stresses of modern motherhood, was written and directed by the guys who did “The Hangover,” Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. Can a movie about women be just a movie? 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z They’re supposed to say cute things abut how “awesome” motherhood is. Hilary Duff’s smoking outrage 2012-06-20T18:55:00Z And it returns years later, in the damp, exhausted clutch of motherhood, when it takes hold of her entirely. A Book About Absorbing What We Love Until It Transforms Us 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Not only are these imaginary tribes of women wittily conceived, but they also remind us of motherhood’s shared experiences: the changing bodies, disrupted sleep schedules and tiny potentates demanding macaroni again and again. Review | In ‘Nightbitch,’ a listless mother turns feral 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z The drawback of being momified, although real, isn’t so much a defining element of the motherhood experience as it is just another front in the war against being seen as a sex vs. an individual. Ambivalent about motherhood and wondering whether she’ll get over it 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z They explore traditional African themes such as motherhood in both realist and abstract forms which periodically catch the eyes of curators in far flung Western capitals. Zimbabwean artist's dynamic stone sculptures find global acclaim 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z The distinctive culture of single motherhood in Iceland forms the subject of a new series by the Canadian photographer Annie Ling, who first travelled to the country last winter, on an artists’ residency. The Independent Mothers of Iceland 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z And double shame on her for devaluing motherhood and perpetuating the myth of the asexual mother in opposition to some idealized Venus. Motherlode: Choosing Motherhood Over Sex? 2011-07-12T15:15:13Z The reality TV star said that motherhood has changed her "in every way." More Kardashians?! Kourtney Kardashian reportedly pregnant again 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z After the birth of her first child, in 2008, Ms. Simpson retreated from fame to focus on motherhood. Ashlee Simpson’s New Reality 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z “I narrowed the field to poetry that related to motherhood or childhood, because that’s the world I was living in,” Ms. Merchant said. From Natalie Merchant, a Literary Tour 2010-04-16T19:06:00Z In a world where the status of moms is seemingly forever under attack, enough are willing to contemplate buying a parenting identity to turn motherhood into the ultimate marketing opportunity. Motherlode Blog: Farewell, Dr. Spock. Hello, Snooki. 2012-04-30T18:47:31Z Heidi runs away, and Agnes, driven by guilt, does, too — to Italy, where a whole other novel unfolds: the story of Agnes’s marriage, motherhood and career as a restorer of wooden sculptures. Review | In ‘Payback,’ by Mary Gordon, a reality-show host seeks revenge 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z |
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