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 Tillie Olsen "I Stand Here Ironing" is the story,
written in 1955, that made art history, mom history, feminist
history, working class literature history and all history. It
is from:
Tell Me a Riddle (Delta reprint, 1971)
Adrienne Rich This is the 1976 book that says
it all: everything you need to know about the theory of mothering
based on mothers' experiences versus motherhood based on patriarchal
expectations:
Of Woman Born: Motherhood
as Experience and Institution (Norton,
reprint 1985)
Ariel Gore We love everything by Ariel Gore, the Hip MaMa
of us all (and there is more than is listed here, so check them
all out):
New Book! :
How to Become a
Famous Writer Before You're Dead Your Words in Print and Your Name in LIghts (Three
Rivers Press, 2007)
Atlas of the Human Heart (Seal Press, 2003). Ariel Gore's memoir of traveling
through China, India and Europe, ending in Italy a pregnant teenager
who goes home, then on to Mills College.
Hip MaMa's Guide to
Parenting (Hyperion,
1998)
Essential Hip MaMa:
Writing from the Cutting Edge of Parenting (Seal Press) 2004
Breeder: Real Life Stories
from the New Generation of Mothers edited
by Ariel Gore and Bee Lavender (Seal, 2001)
Beverly Donofrio Riding
in Cars with Boys is the funniest college mom book
ever! A must read! Her other books are great, too!
Riding in Cars with
Boys (Virago Press)
2001)
China Doll Martens China put together 15 years of
the coolest mothering zine into this great book! Order it today!!
Future Generation: The Zine-Book for Subculture
Parents, Kids Friends and Others (Atomic, 2007)
Diane di Prima The Beat Poet MaMa that shows us all the way. Read
her poetry, read this memoir. This Kind of Bird Flies Backward,
her poetry collection published in 1958 contains the best moma
to child poem ever.
Recollections of My
Life as a Woman: The New York Years (Viking, 2001)
Hettie Jones She had already been to college
before she had her children, but this memoir tells the story
of being a mom in the middle of the Beat scene in New York City
in the 1950's and 60's.
How I Became Hettie
Jones (Dutton,
1990)
Andrea O'Reilly Continuation
of Adrienne's Rich's work on mothering:
Mother Outlaws: Theories
and Practices of Empowered Mothering (Women's
Press, 2004)
 Katherine
Arnoldi College Mom
Magazine's editor's story of her struggle to find the way to
college as a teenage mom:
The Amazing True Story
of a Teenage Single Mom
(Hyperion, 1998)
New Book! All Things Are Labor, short stories (University of Massachusetts Press,
2007)
Ayun Halliday: Funny East Village Mom stories:
No Touch Monkey and
Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late
The Big Rumpus: A Mother's
Tale from the Trenches
Bee Lavender and
Maia Rossini: More
mom artist stories!
Mamaphonic: Balancing
Motherhood and the Other Creative Acts
(Soft Skull, 2004)
Joan Blades and Kristin-Row-Finkbeiner
Mother's Manifesto:
What America's Moms Want -And What to Do About It (Nation, 2006)
Evelyn McDonnell
Mamarama: Sex, Kids
& Rock 'n' Roll (2007) New
book by Rock critic Evelyn McDonnell. Great read.
Nicole Lynn Hannans
Glori Memoir of a mom's escape from a
drug selling boyfriend and to a life of college and autonomy.
bell hooks
Feminism is for Everybody:
Passionate Politics by
(South End, 2000), Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism and Feminist
Theroy: From Margin to Center. All must reads for College Moms
fighting for equal rights.
Note: bell hooks studied
with Tillie Olsen at Stanford.
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