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Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families
Random House
March 2006
368 pages
ISBN: 1400064155
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
With motherhood comes one of the toughest decisions of a
woman�s life: Stay at home or pursue a career? The dilemma
not only divides mothers into hostile, defensive camps but
pits individual mothers against themselves. Leslie Morgan
Steiner has been there. As an executive at The Washington
Post, a writer, and mother of three, she has lived and
breathed every side of the "mommy wars." Rather than just
watch the battles rage, Steiner decided to do something
about it. She commissioned twenty-six outspoken mothers to
write about their lives, their families, and the choices
that have worked for them. The result is a frank,
surprising, and utterly refreshing look at American
motherhood.
Ranging in age from twenty-five to
seventy-two and scattered across the country from New
Hampshire to California, these mothers reflect the full
spectrum of lifestyle choices. Women who have been home with
the kids from day one, moms who shuttle from full-time
office jobs to part-time at-home work, hard-driving
executives who put in seventy-hour-plus weeks: they all get
a turn. The one thing these women have in common, aside from
having kids, is that they're all terrific writers.
Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley vividly recounts
how her generation stormed the American workplace--only to
take refuge at home when the workplace drove them out.
Lizzie McGuire creator Terri Minsky describes what it felt
like to hear her kids scream "I hope you never come back!"
when she flew to L.A. to launch the show that made her
career. Susan Cheever, novelist, biographer, and New York
Newsday columnist, reports on the furious battles between
the stroller pushers and the briefcase bearers on the
streets of Manhattan. Lois R. Shea traded the journalistic
fast track for a house in the country where she could raise
her daughter in peace. Ann Misiaszek Sarnoff, chief
operating officer of the Women�s National Basketball
Association, argues fiercely that you can combine ambition
and motherhood--and have a blast in the
process.
Candid, engaging, by turns unflinchingly
honest and painfully funny, the essays collected here offer
an astonishingly intimate portrait of the state of
motherhood today. Mommy Wars is a book by and for and
about the real experts on motherhood and hard work: the
women at home, in the office, on the job every day of their
lives.
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