mother's day Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/tag/mothers-day/ Wed, 04 May 2016 19:22:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Diva Mamas—Reluctant Mothers in Literature https://booksbywomen.org/diva-mamas-reluctant-mothers-in-literature-by-diana-y-paul/ https://booksbywomen.org/diva-mamas-reluctant-mothers-in-literature-by-diana-y-paul/#comments Wed, 04 May 2016 08:29:28 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15640 Happy Mother’s Day to all women for we are mothers both to ourselves as well as to others! And as Mother’s Day approaches, we are surrounded by cards and suggested gifts in the image of the perfect mom. The fictional mothers I will focus on are reluctant mothers at best, who hesitantly take on the […]

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