POWER Loop

The chance to participate in online discussions in the POWER Loop is one of the benefits of membership in Mothers & More. The mission of the POWER Loop is to explore Patterns Of Women's Experience and Employment with Respect and Recognition for Mothers. The POWER Loop is an online forum for sharing discussion, news articles and recent studies related to motherhood and society. POWER Loop members participate in a stimulating ongoing dialogue as well as structured discussions on special topics, which often include appearances by guest authors.

Some Previous Author Appearances on the POWER Loop

• April-May 2005 - Mothers Day Campaign
    
  • Anna Fels (4/18-23) - Necessary Dreams : Ambition in Women's Changing Lives  
  • Phyllis Moen (4/23-4/28) - It's About Time: Couples and Careers
  • Judith Warner (5/3-5/8) - Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
  • Miriam Peskowitz (pending) - The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars: Who Decides What Makes a Good Mother?
  • This year the loop will feature a "The Day After Mother’s Day" on line diary event. POWER loopers will be encouraged to "clock in" with their time at set times during the day.
    The three editors ( Joni B. Cole, Rebecca Joffrey, and B.K. Rakhra ) of This Day: Diaries from American Women will be joining the loop for our "day." Come add your voice to the loop.
• The Naked Truth : A Working Woman's Manifesto on Business and What Really Matters by Margaret A. Heffernan, 2004.

   

• Unbending Gender: Why work and family conflict and what to do about it by Joan Williams
  (FORUM interview)

   

• The Mask of Motherhood: How Becoming a Mother Changes Our Lives and Why We Never Talk about It by Susan Maushart
  (FORUM interview)

   

• The Price of Motherhood by Ann Crittenden
  (FORUM interview) - Ann also returned to talk to the loop about "Valuing the work of Motherhood as Paid Job Credential". Her latest book is If You've Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything

   

• Who Knew? The French Got Femininity Right by Judith Warner (her upcoming book is "Mommy & Me: Life Inside the Cult of Ideal Motherhood")

   

• What's Happening to Home by Maggie Jackson
  (FORUM interview)

   

• When Mothers Work: Loving Our Children Without Sacrificing Ourselves and Not Your Mother's Life: Changing the Rules of Work, Love, and Family, by Joan K. Peters who was a guest on the Dr. Phil Show episode, "Mom vs. Mom".

   

• Jonathan Rowe. He is a fellow of the Tomales Bay Institute and several excellent articles by him are found at their site. He is coauthor of the book Time Dollars. In our POWER Plan, we stress the importance of counting unpaid caregiving, and his writings will help provide context for why we are concerned about this. Here are some you can find online:
  • The Global Accounting Scam
  • The GDP Myth: Why 'growth' isn't always a good thing
  • If the Economy Is Up Why Is America Down?

   

• The Mom Economy: The Mothers' Guide to Getting Family-Friendly Work by Elizabeth Wilcox.

   

   

• Taxing Women by Ed McCaffery. (Interview at University of Chicago Press)

   

   

• Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other) Minute of It by Andrea J. Buchanan

   

   

• Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect Life: or How I Learned to Love the House, the Man, the Child by Faulkner Fox.

   

   

• The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined Women by Susan Douglas and Meredith Michaels

   

   

• Maternal Desire: On Children, Love, and the Inner Life by Daphne De Marneffe