First-time mother, veteran feminist

I confess to having seen Geek.Anachronism around the Internet for like, ever, and yet when I dropped by to read her response to my 10 questions about your feminist motherhood I suddenly realised I had never been to her blog before. Somehow I have missed Lucy completely. And I don’t know how that happened, because [...]

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Guest post: Raised by a feminist father

Guest post: Flo blogs at Black dog ate my homework . Clever blog name huh? She lives with her partner and their young son and she writes mostly about the difficulties she encounters living with a partner who has chronic depression. Here is her response to my 10 questions about your feminist motherhood.
Of course [...]

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Meet “feminist childbirth studies”, the blog

A great new blog find (ie. Feminist Childbirth Studies) and the latest response to my 10 Feminist Motherhood Questions:
5. What makes your mothering feminist? How does your approach differ from a non-feminist mother’s? How does feminism impact upon your parenting?

That’s an interesting series of questions. I suppose our parenting is feminist in a quiet sort [...]

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Identifying as feminist

The latest response to my 10 questions on your feminist motherhood is over at Kemp’s Creative Happiness Blog. Kemp introduced herself to me when she emailed me to say that she’d responded to my 10 questions so I’m only just getting to know her blog.
While long identifying with the values of feminism, Kemp describes herself [...]

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Guest Post: Stepmothering and feminist motherhood

Guest post: Stephanie blogs at group blog, The Hand Mirror. She lives with her partner and for almost half the time with his 5 year old daughter also. Consequently Stephanie has become a step-mother. Here is her response to my 10 questions about your feminist motherhood.
Stephanie’s response to these questions as a stepmother is [...]

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Feminism, motherhood and compromise

In a strange land has responded to my 10 questions on feminist motherhood. I’ve followed her blog for quite some time and she is a deeply thoughtful parent and political thinker. The clear theme to emerge in her response to my 10 questions is ‘compromise’, and how she is coming to terms with this perhaps [...]

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Linkety links

Feminist motherhood in Singapore – a must read from motherworld, and a potential new favourite for you if you’re mothering in Singapore or there abouts.

My feminism is a silent one, sneaking behind a facade of conservatism and maneuvering itself around a watchful patriarchal society, waiting to pounce.

Queer eye for your child? Rebel Raising explains how [...]

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Guest post: One stay-at-home-mother’s feminism

Guest post: Demelza is 31 years old, married, has a university education, three young children and identifies as a stay-at-home mother.  Here is her response to my 10 questions about your feminist motherhood. Demelza’s response asks some interesting questions about how socioeconomic class impacts on people’s perceptions of her choice to be a stay-at-home-mother.

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More of what feminist mothers look like

Three new (and very considered) responses to my 10 questions about your feminist mothering. It struck me while reading these very different responses that what they had in common as feminist mothers was a level of consciousness about their parenting. Feminist mothers think a lot about what they’re doing, I’ve concluded. All three of these [...]

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Guest post: Equal parenting, sex and everything in between

Guest post: StatisticianMom is partnered with three children -  a son and two daughters. Here is her response to my 10 questions about your feminist motherhood. It is probably one of the most revealing responses I’ve received yet, I found myself wanting to know more and more. My curiosity stemmed partly from her experiences with [...]

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