{"product_id":"between-mothers-and-sons-women-writers-talk-about-having-sons-and-raising-men","title":"Between Mothers and Sons","description":"\u003cp\u003eWomen Writers Talk about Having Sons and Raising Men\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The challenge for mothers of sons is to realize that because we do not share a sexual identity, that because we have not grown up in a male body, we cannot presume to understand everything there is to know about our sons' worlds.\" -- Patricia Stevens\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween Mothers and Sons is the first anthology in which women writers attempt to answer the question that all mothers have contemplated in the course of mothering the opposite sex: \"Who is this male child who came out of my body?\" Or, as a pregnant Mary Gordon said when her doctor told her she was having a boy, \"Oh, my God. What am I supposed to do with one of them?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the earliest days of nursing to the good-byes of college and looming adulthood, these writers collectively explore, in a thrilling range of styles and sensibilities, the delights and frustrations, the deep and often conflicted emotions, they feel in their roles as mothers to their male children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween Mothers and Sons resoundingly and unflinchingly celebrates this journey we are all making with our boys. with essays from: Julene Bair † Janet Burroway † Robb Forman Dew Deborah Galyan † Mary Gordon † Joy Harjo † Anne Lamott Susan Lester † Jo-Ann Mapson † Leigh McKinley Valerie Monroe † Naomi Shihab Nye † Eileen Pollack Jewell Parker Rhodes † Patricia Stevens † Sallie Tilsdale Kris Vervaecke † Patricia Williams\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patricia Stevens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43311491842217,"sku":"9780684850726","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/266064686e6c7a2640263c3843473c6a58503c395a27565a45383a3f395627565a453839393956.jpg?v=1697686899","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/between-mothers-and-sons-women-writers-talk-about-having-sons-and-raising-men","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}