links
Useful sites on motherhood and women's work issues:
www.valuefamiliesatwork.org
www.iwpr.org
www.familiesandwork.org
www.catalyst.org
www.yorku.ca/arm/
www.aauw.org
www.working-families.org
www.bc.edu/centers/cwf
www.cww.rutgers.edu
www.workingpoorfamilies.org
www.eoionline.org
www.momsrising.org
www.resolve.org
www.adoptioninstitute.org
www.plannedparenthood.org
www.fertilityauthority.com
www.motherhoodlater.com
A site dedicated to the book Ready
ReadyMoms.com
University of Houston Women's Studies homepage
FriendsofWomen.org
Some useful reference texts
Drucilla Barker and Susan F. Feiner, Liberating Economics: Feminist
Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization (U Michigan P, 2004)
Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas, Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage (Berkeley: U California Press, 2007)
Ann Fessler, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade (NY: Penguin Two, 2007)
Nancy Folbre, The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values (NY: The
New Press, 2001)
Nancy Folbre, Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family
(NY: Harvard UP, 2008)
Michelle Goldberg, Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World (Penguin, 2009)
Virginia Held, The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, Global (NY: Oxford
UP, 2007)
Kathryn Joyce, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement (Boston: Beacon, 2009)
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (NY: Knopf, 2009)
Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos, Silent Sorority: A (Barren) Woman Gets Busy,
Angry, Lost and Found (Charleston, SC: Book Surge, 2009).
Russell Shorto, “No Babies?,” New York Times Magazine (June 29, 2008)
Debora Spar, The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception (Cambridge: Harvard Business Press, 2006)
Genevieve Vaughan, ed., Women and the Gift Economy: a radically different
worldview is possible (Toronto: Inanna Publications, 2007)
Marilyn Waring, Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women Are Worth, 2d ed. (Toronto: U Toronto P, 1999)
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