Delve Deeper into Motherland A film by Ramona Diaz

This list of fiction and poverty, about the abuse they Cornog, Martha and Timothy nonfiction books, compiled have endured, about their Perper. For SEX EDUCATION, by Robert Surratt of the San eagerness for meaningful work, See Librarian: A Guide to Diego Public Library, and about their inventiveness in Issues and Resources. provides a range of stretching scarce dollars. In a Greenwood, 1996. At long perspectives on the issues policy debate increasingly last, here is the definitive raised by the POV dominated by shrill, punitive practical guide to sexuality documentary Motherland. voices, Schein argues that the materials in libraries and an experiences and collective annotated bibliography of nearly Motherland is an absorbingly wisdom of these women cannot 600 recommended books for intimate, vérité look at the be ignored. school and public libraries. busiest maternity hospital on Cornog and Perper, the the planet, in one of the world's Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer. Mother preeminent experts on sexuality most populous countries: the Nature: A History of Mothers, materials for libraries, provide . Women share their Infants, and Natural guidelines for materials stories with other mothers, their Selection. New York, NY: selection, reference, processing, families, doctors and social Pantheon Books, 1999. access, programming, and workers. In a hospital that is Maternal instinct—the all- dealing with problems of literally bursting with life, we consuming, utterly selfless love vandalism and censorship. The witness the miracle and wonder that mothers lavish on their bibliography, organized into 5 of the human condition. children—has long been topics and 48 subtopics, assumed to be an innate, annotates a collection of ADULT NONFICTION indeed defining element of a recommended books and woman's nature. But is it? In nonprint materials on sexuality Kristof, Nicholas D., and this provocative, information for children and Sheryl WuDunn. Half the groundbreaking book, renowned adults, most published since Sky: Turning Oppression into anthropologist (and mother) 1985. Recommended works Opportunity for Women Sarah Blaffer Hrdy shares a represent a wide variety of Worldwide. Vintage, 2010. radical new vision of views, including Christian and Half the Sky is a passionate call motherhood and its crucial role conservative. to arms against our era’s most in human evolution. pervasive human rights Hrdy strips away stereotypes ADULT FICTION violation: the oppression of and gender-biased myths to women and girls in the demonstrate that traditional Chai, Arlene J. The Last Time developing world. With Pulitzer views of maternal behavior are I Saw Mother. New York, NY: Prize-winning essentially wishful thinking Fawcett Columbine, 1996. and Sheryl codified as objective Caridad, a Filipino woman with WuDunn as our guides, we observation. an 18-year-old daughter, is undertake an odyssey through called home from to Africa and to meet with Salamon, Julie. Hospital: Manila by her aging mother and extraordinary women struggling Man, Woman, Birth, Death, told that she was adopted as an there. Among them is a Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad infant. She learns that her real Cambodian teenager sold into Behavior, Money, God and mother is her aunt Emma and sex slavery and an Ethiopian Diversity on Steroids that her cousins are really her woman who suffered New York, NY: Penguin sisters. Long-buried memories devastating injuries in Press, 2008 A warts-and-all of early confusion resurface as childbirth. Drawing on the exploration of the struggles Caridad's relatives help piece breadth of their combined suffered and triumphs achieved together the puzzle of her past. reporting experience, Kristof by America’s health-care This absorbing first novel relates and WuDunn depict our world professionals, Hospital follows a the lives of four women in one with anger, sadness, clarity and, year in the life of Maimonides Filipino family against a ultimately, hope. They show Medical Center in Brooklyn, tumultuous historical backdrop how a little help can transform which serves a diverse ranging from World War II the lives of women and girls multicultural demographic. through the fall of the Marcos abroad. Unraveling the financial, ethical, regime. technological, sociological, and Schein, Virginia E. Working cultural challenges encountered Diamant, Anita. The Red from the Margins: Voices of every day, bestselling author Tent. New York, NY: Picador Mothers in Poverty. ILR Julie Salamon tracks the USA, 1998. Her name is Dinah. Press Books, 1995. Schein individuals who make this In the Bible, her life is only shatters the stereotype of complex hospital run-from hinted at in a brief and violent mothers on welfare. The women doctors, patients, and detour within the more familiar she interviewed in cities, towns, administrators to nurses, chapters of the Book of Genesis. and rural areas talked to her ambulance drivers, cooks, and In about their deep commitment to cleaners. bestseller, The Red Tent, Anita the children they are raising in Diamant brings this fascinating

Delve Deeper into Motherland A film by Ramona Diaz biblical character to vivid life. pregnancy fail, she turns to only as Brat has no family, no Told in Dinah's voice, the novel Jules and Annie to make her home, and no future until she reveals the traditions and dreams come true. meets Jane the Midwife and turmoils of ancient womanhood- becomes her apprentice. As she the world of the red tent. It NONFICTION FOR YOUNGER helps the sharp-tempered Jane begins with the story of Dinah's READERS deliver babies, Brat—who mothers-Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, renames herself Alyce—gains and Bilhah-the four wives of Jimenez, Gidget. All About knowledge, confidence, and the Jacob. They love Dinah and give the Philippines: Stories, courage to want something from her gifts that sustain her Songs, Crafts and Games for life: "A full belly, a contented through a hard-working youth, a Kids. Rutland, VT: Tuttle heart, and a place in this world." calling to midwifery, and a new Publishing, 2015. All About Medieval village life makes a home in a foreign land. Dinah's the Philippines takes you on an lively backdrop for the funny, story reaches out from a incredible journey across the poignant story of how Alyce remarkable period of early colorful island nation of the gets what she wants. A history and creates an intimate Philippines with Mary, Jaime and concluding note discusses connection with the past. Ari—three Filipino cousins who midwifery past and present. look totally different and yet are Manning, Kate. My Notorious the best of friends. You'll visit Galang, Evelina M. Angel de Life: A Novel. New York, NY: their homes, their schools, their la Luna and the 5th Glorious Scribner, 2013. Meet the families, their favorite places, Mystery. Minneapolis, MN: incomparable Axie Muldoon. and much more. They'll show Coffee House Press, 2013. Axie’s story begins on the you how kids in different parts Angel has just lost her father, streets of 1860s New York. The of the Philippines come from and her mother's grief means impoverished child of Irish many different ethnic groups she might as well be gone too. immigrants, she grows up to and have very different She's got a sister and a become one of the wealthiest cultures—each with its own grandmother to look out for, and most controversial women traditions, languages and and a burgeoning consciousness of her day. In vivid prose, Axie beliefs…and yet, they are all of the unfairness in the world— recounts how she is forcibly 100% Filipino! in her family, her community, separated from her mother and and her country. Set against the siblings, apprenticed to a Rodriguez, Gaby. The backdrop of the second doctor, and how she and her Pregnancy Project: A Philippine People Power husband parlay the sale of a few Memoir. New York, NY: Revolution in 2001, the bottles of “Lunar Tablets for Simon & Schuster Books for contemporary struggles of Female Complaint” into a Young Readers, 2012. surviving Filipina “Comfort thriving midwifery business. Growing up, Gaby Rodriguez Women” of WWII, and a cold Flouting convention and defying was often told she would end up winter’s season in the city of the law in the name of women’s a teen mom. After all, her Chicago is the story of a rights, Axie rises from grim mother and her older sisters daughter coming of age, coming tenement rooms to the splendor had gotten pregnant as to forgiveness, and learning to of a mansion on Fifth Avenue, teenagers; from an outsider’s move past the chaos of grief to amassing wealth while learning perspective, it was practically a survive. over and over never to trust a family tradition. Gaby had man who says “trust me.” ambitions that didn’t include Lazo-Gilmore, Dorina K. Cora teen motherhood. But she Cooks Pancit. Walnut Creek, Weiner, Jennifer. Then Came wondered: how would she be CA: Shen’s Books, 2009. Cora You. New York, NY: Atria treated if she “lived down” to loves being in the kitchen, but Books, 2011. Jules Strauss is a others' expectations? Would she always gets stuck doing the Princeton senior on a full everyone ignore the years she kid jobs like licking the spoon. scholarship who plans on selling put into being a good student One day, however, when her her “pedigree” eggs to help save and see her as just another older sisters and brother head her father from addiction. Annie pregnant teen statistic with no out, Cora finally gets the chance Barrow, a struggling future? These questions sparked to be Mama's assistant chef. Pennsylvania housewife, thinks Gaby’s high school senior And of all the delicious Filipino that carrying another woman’s project: faking her own dishes that dance through child will help her recover a pregnancy to see how her Cora's head, she and Mama sense of purpose and will bring family, friends, and community decide to make pancit, her in some much-needed cash. would react. favorite noodle dish. With India Bishop, thirty-eight Mama's help, Cora does the (really, forty-three) and recently grown-up jobs like shredding FICTION FOR YOUNGER married to the wealthy Marcus the chicken and soaking the READERS Croft, yearns for a baby for noodles. Cora even gets to stir reasons that have more to do the noodles in the pot Cushman, Karen. The with money than with love. carefully—while Mama Midwife’s Apprentice. Clarion When her attempts at supervises. Books, 1995. The girl known