Motherhood: How Should We Care For Our Children?

by Anne Manne

Controversial, unflinching, and intelligent, Anne Manne discusses the big issues surrounding motherhood and childcare and proposes radical new directions for social policy.

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction

392 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Anne Manne is a Melbourne writer. She has been a regular columnist for the Australian and the Age. More recently her essays on contemporary culture such as child abuse, pornography, gendercide and disability have all appeared in The Monthly magazine. Her essay ‘Ebony: The Girl in the Room’ was included in The Best Australian Essay’s: A Ten Year Collection. Her book, Motherhood: How should we care for our children, was a finalist in the Walkley Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of 2006. She has written a Quarterly Essay, ‘Love and Money: The family of the Free Market’ and a memoir, So this is Life: Scenes from a country childhood.
- Taken from The Life of I: The New Culture of Narcissism

Reviews

[Darla · Rating 4 out of 5]

A well researched, thoughtful & sympathetic book by a "maternal feminist." Manne exposes the agenda based researched regarding child care and the feminist movement. However, she implicates Capitalism as the great evil that has divided families, not feminist driven liberalism. She had me until that point. Highly recommended.