Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves Sunday, August 2 2009.

• The challenges facing mothers in the twenty-first century go well beyond tantrum control and potty training. Camille Peri and Kate Moses, the founding editors of Salon.com's "Mothers Who Think" column and the subsequent anthology of the same name, have once again compiled a selection of intimate and fiercely honest essays on the profound issues that affect women and their children. Because I Said So offers thirty-three unique perspectives on motherhood from such writers as Janet Fitch, Mariane Pearl, Ayelet Waldman, Mary Roach, Rosellen Brown, Mary Morris, and Ana Castillo. Witty and wise, their stories range from the anguish of giving up child custody to the guilt of having sex in an era of sexless marriages; from learning to love the full-speed testosterone chaos of boys to raising girls in a pervasively sexualized culture; from facing racial and religious intolerance to surviving cancer and rap simultaneously. This is the collective voice of real mothers in all their humor, anger, vulnerability, grace, and glory.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves Thursday, July 16 2009.

• It was, like young motherhood itself, naïve if not purely delusional: Two conversation-starved and over-caffeinated mothers on a zoo outing with their children started to talk about how underserved they felt by the standard motherhood books and magazines.