Avital Norman Nathman is a former teacher, lifelong learner, and current freelance writer, editor, speaker, and organizer. Her work places a feminist lens on a variety of topics, including motherhood, maternal health, gender, reproductive rights, pop culture, education, and cannabis.
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“…several essays by scholars, activists, artists, and professionals delve into the ways in which “motherhood, as an institution, remains oppressive to women today,” and expose ideals of femininity that are not just exclusively straight, white, and biological but ensure that “women’s work” remains “invisible and unpaid.” Refreshingly honest, frequently funny, and overall intelligently self-reflective, these voices reassure the anxious and guilt-ridden that ‘there is no such thing as a good mother. There is only the good enough mother.’ ” – Publisher’s Weekly
“…I know that these mothers do not always agree with each other. I know that they might, like me, disapprove of others. This is why Avital Norman Nathman’s anthology is the perfect format for a response to our culture’s sanitized and polished representations of motherhood. No one mother’s point of view is, by itself, a sufficient challenge. […] I am so glad to have read this book.” – Gretchen Sisson, Bitch Magazine
