Single Mothers Speak on Patriarchy - by Trista Hendren (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

More than 45 single mothers from around the world share their struggles and triumphs via essays, poems, art and critique. As Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. wrote in her review, "These are voices that need to be heard ... yet so many block their ears: the pain of memory and/or recognition may be too much. These stories speak a deep essential truth about the global cultural context for those engaged in maternal care, and where lies the illnesses of our times...This anthology furthers and encourages the speaking of women's truths, which often does indeed split the world open."

Review Quotes

"If we are ever to value women, we must value mothers. Our voices can be easily ignored or dismissed. Single Mothers Speak on Patriarchy raises the voices of women who are so easily dismissed. This collection of words and art from single mothers is at once enraging, inspiring, uncomfortable, moving and authentic. Solidarity, sisters, and congratulations on speaking your truth. The rest of us? Listen up. #MothersOfTheWorldUnite".

Vanessa Olorenshaw, author of Liberating Motherhood: Birthing the Purplestockings Movement

"These are voices that need to be heard ... yet so many block their ears: the pain of memory and/or recognition may be too much. These stories speak a deep essential truth about the global cultural context for those engaged in maternal care, and where lies the illnesses of our times - that are seen played out everyday...This anthology furthers and encourages the speaking of women's truths, which often does indeed split the world open: but it apparently needs to be so. May more have the courage required, and may they be safer as they do so. May those who hear have more compassionate response for the mothers and the children, and may laws be enacted as if She - in us all - mattered."

Glenys Livingstone Ph.D., author of PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion