Parenting & Families Books


Missing Voices: The Experience of MotherhoodMissing Voices: The Experience of Motherhood
Best Price: $34.00
Motherhood is often portrayed as one of the most fulfilling experiences in a woman's life....
Nurturing Success: Successful Women of Color and Their DaughtersNurturing Success: Successful Women of Color and Their Daughters
Best Price: $72.24
Although interest in mother/daughter relationships has led to a plethora of books on the...
Molly's FamilyMolly's Family
Best Price: $6.95
I was fortunate enough to sneak a peak at an advance review copy of "Molly's...
The Psychology of Female Violence: Crimes Against the BodyThe Psychology of Female Violence: Crimes Against the Body
Best Price: $27.30
What are the causes of violence in women? What can be done to help these women and their...
A Family and Friend's Guide to Sexual Orientation: Bridging the Divide Between Gay and StraightA Family and Friend's Guide to Sexual Orientation: Bridging the Divide Between Gay and Straight
Best Price: $92.01
A Family and Friend's Guide to Sexual Orientation helps individuals and families to bridge...


Talking In The Dark (Push Poetry)Talking In The Dark (Push Poetry)
Best Price: $2.97
I'm a little confused as to this book's classification as YA. Sure, there were sections...
The Person: His Development Through the Life CycleThe Person: His Development Through the Life Cycle
Best Price: $50.29
Person, The: His Development throughout the Life Cycle by Lidz, Theodore
On Our Own: Unmarried Motherhood in AmericaOn Our Own: Unmarried Motherhood in America
Best Price: $4.45
In "On Our Own" Melissa Ludtke, a professional journalist, sets out to uncover the...
The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender, Updated EditionThe Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender, Updated Edition
Best Price: $14.99
No data. Zilch. Nada. No in-depth interviews, no participant observation, no historical...
MotherlossMotherloss
Best Price: $5.95
What is perhaps most impressive about this high-achieving book is the wide audience to which it...


Simone De Beauvoir and the Demystification of Motherhood (Challenging the Literary Canon)Simone De Beauvoir and the Demystification of Motherhood (Challenging the Literary Canon)Beyond Expectation: Lesbian/Bi/Queer Women and Assisted ConceptionBeyond Expectation: Lesbian/Bi/Queer Women and Assisted Conception
Best Price: $60.00
An in-depth study of lesbian, bi, and queer women's experiences of thinking about and trying...
Love Makes a Family: Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Parents and Their FamiliesLove Makes a Family: Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Parents and Their Families
Best Price: $32.58
"Love makes a family" originally started as a photo exhibition depicting...
Loving Emma: A Story of Reluctant MotherhoodLoving Emma: A Story of Reluctant Motherhood
Best Price: $1.50
Most memoirs speak of family, innocence lost, secrets hidden and later unearthed?or of...
Picture Imperfect (Amigas y Amor)Picture Imperfect (Amigas y Amor)
Best Price: $1.17
Paloma has had enough. After what seems like a lifetime of being Deanne's wife, she decides...

Getting Simon: Two Gay Doctors' Journey to FatherhoodGetting Simon: Two Gay Doctors' Journey to Fatherhood
Best Price: $3.89
GETTING SIMON is a gripping odyssey following one man's obsession to create a family. Not...
El Hijo de Billy (Billy's Boy) (Spanish Edition)El Hijo de Billy (Billy's Boy) (Spanish Edition)
Best Price: $24.95
having read the series of gay novels by Patricia Neil Warren in English, I have found that...
Lesbian and gay parenting: A psychological and legal perspectiveLesbian and gay parenting: A psychological and legal perspectiveThe Chronicles of NerddomThe Chronicles of Nerddom
This Young Adult novel is written as a journal... of Nelson Greene; spelling bee champ with a...
The Lesbian Parenting Book: A Guide to Creating Families and Raising ChildrenThe Lesbian Parenting Book: A Guide to Creating Families and Raising Children
Best Price: $4.99
Written by two experienced lesbian therapists and parents, this second completely revised...

African American Single Mothers: Understanding Their Lives and Families (SAGE Series on Race and Ethnic Relations)African American Single Mothers: Understanding Their Lives and Families (SAGE Series on Race and Ethnic Relations)
Best Price: $56.44
The African American single-parent family has tended to be a scapegoat for a variety of social...
Feminism and DisabilityFeminism and Disability
Best Price: $15.90
Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German LiteratureMothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature
Best Price: $5.98
Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of TechnoscienceQueering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience
Best Price: $89.95
Originally developed to help heterosexual couples, fertility treatments such as in vitro...
Negotiating Power & Privilege: Career Igbo Women in Contemporary Nigeria (Ohio RIS Africa Series)Negotiating Power & Privilege: Career Igbo Women in Contemporary Nigeria (Ohio RIS Africa Series)
Best Price: $17.94
This is a beautifully written account, written by a Nigerian woman, about the gendered academic...

He's My Daughter: A Mother's Journey to AcceptanceHe's My Daughter: A Mother's Journey to Acceptance
Best Price: $19.27
A shocking phone call from their distraught daughter-in-law was how Lynda and Richard Langley...
A Sea of White ImpatiensA Sea of White Impatiens
Best Price: $8.95
Editing is completely alien to this author who confuses novelistic license with autobiography....
Ready or Not...They're Gay: Stories from a Midwestern FamilyReady or Not...They're Gay: Stories from a Midwestern Family
Best Price: $7.43
This is a wonderful story of a family's experiences and thoughts as Paul and Hjordy's...
How Would You Feel If Your Dad Was GayHow Would You Feel If Your Dad Was Gay
Best Price: $39.75
Great book - from the point of view of a young daughter bragging to classmates that she has...
How Would You Feel If Your Dad Was Gay?How Would You Feel If Your Dad Was Gay?
Best Price: $8.99
HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF YOUR DAD WAS GAY? by Heron and Maran tells the story of Jasmine and...

African American Single Mothers: Understanding Their Lives and Families (SAGE Series on Race and Ethnic Relations)African American Single Mothers: Understanding Their Lives and Families (SAGE Series on Race and Ethnic Relations)
Best Price: $56.44
The African American single-parent family has tended to be a scapegoat for a variety of social...
Feminism and DisabilityFeminism and Disability
Best Price: $15.90
Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German LiteratureMothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature
Best Price: $5.98
Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of TechnoscienceQueering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience
Best Price: $89.95
Originally developed to help heterosexual couples, fertility treatments such as in vitro...
Negotiating Power & Privilege: Career Igbo Women in Contemporary Nigeria (Ohio RIS Africa Series)Negotiating Power & Privilege: Career Igbo Women in Contemporary Nigeria (Ohio RIS Africa Series)
Best Price: $17.94
This is a beautifully written account, written by a Nigerian woman, about the gendered academic...

He's My Daughter: A Mother's Journey to AcceptanceHe's My Daughter: A Mother's Journey to Acceptance
Best Price: $19.27
A shocking phone call from their distraught daughter-in-law was how Lynda and Richard Langley...
A Sea of White ImpatiensA Sea of White Impatiens
Best Price: $8.95
Editing is completely alien to this author who confuses novelistic license with autobiography....
Ready or Not...They're Gay: Stories from a Midwestern FamilyReady or Not...They're Gay: Stories from a Midwestern Family
Best Price: $7.43
This is a wonderful story of a family's experiences and thoughts as Paul and Hjordy's...
How Would You Feel If Your Dad Was GayHow Would You Feel If Your Dad Was Gay
Best Price: $39.75
Great book - from the point of view of a young daughter bragging to classmates that she has...
How Would You Feel If Your Dad Was Gay?How Would You Feel If Your Dad Was Gay?
Best Price: $8.99
HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF YOUR DAD WAS GAY? by Heron and Maran tells the story of Jasmine and...

Conversation Begins: Mothers and Daughters Talk About Living FeminismConversation Begins: Mothers and Daughters Talk About Living Feminism
Best Price: $3.20
The first book to take an honest, in-depth look at the difficulties and rewards of being a...
And Baby Makes 4And Baby Makes 4
Best Price: $10.81
This is a surprising, appealing, whimsical take on the old story of sibling rivalry. The text is...
A Departure from the ScriptA Departure from the Script
Best Price: $1.95
Sheila Katz, the irrepressible main character of A Departure from the Script, is a Jewish mother...
The Equality TrapThe Equality Trap
Best Price: $59.40
Despite the feminist revolution of the past twenty years, most women in America are worse off...
Gay Parents/Straight Schools: Building Communication and TrustGay Parents/Straight Schools: Building Communication and Trust
Best Price: $15.00
This is an awesome book with many different views. I definately recommend this book for...

Parenting and Professing: Balancing Family Work with an Academic CareerParenting and Professing: Balancing Family Work with an Academic Career
Best Price: $124.99
Featuring many personal accounts, the twenty-four essays in this collection explore the...
Welcoming children from sexual-minority families into our schools (Fastback)Welcoming children from sexual-minority families into our schools (Fastback)Considering ParenthoodConsidering Parenthood
Best Price: $8.69
This book was a great guide for my partner and I as we make important decisions about having a...
When Grown-Ups Fall in LoveWhen Grown-Ups Fall in Love
This book is a sweet poem, colorfully illustrated, and suitable for children of pre-school and...
Papa and Daddy and Babies in AlaskaPapa and Daddy and Babies in Alaska
Best Price: $10.45
This book is a memoir of sorts about what Gary and John go through during the IVF conception,...

Working Women (Opposing Viewpoints)Working Women (Opposing Viewpoints)
Best Price: $27.50
Always My Child: A Parent's Guide to Understanding Your Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered or Questioning Son or DaughterAlways My Child: A Parent's Guide to Understanding Your Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered or Questioning Son or Daughter
Best Price: $3.33
Kevin Jennings, Executive Director of GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) has...
Gay and Lesbian Parenting: New DirectionsGay and Lesbian Parenting: New Directions
Best Price: $77.31
A new, multidisciplinary look at GLBT parenting Over the past 30 years, research on gay and...
Lesbian MotherhoodLesbian MotherhoodLesbian MotherhoodLesbian Motherhood

Baby Steps: How Lesbian Alternative Insemination Is Changing the WorldBaby Steps: How Lesbian Alternative Insemination Is Changing the World
Best Price: $15.90
I think all women should be able to decide how to live their lives and raise their children,...
Coming Out to Parents: A Two-Way Survival Guide for Lesbians and Gay Men and Their ParentsComing Out to Parents: A Two-Way Survival Guide for Lesbians and Gay Men and Their Parents
Best Price: $39.05
This book is in its second edition -- updated in the 90's to include information about HIV...
A Bite Off Mama's Plate: Mothers' and Daughters' Connections through FoodA Bite Off Mama's Plate: Mothers' and Daughters' Connections through Food
Best Price: $5.34
A Bite off Mama's Plate is a trip through time and into every woman's heart. Each...
SeasonsSeasons
Seasons is the first book I have read from Anne Azel and I look forward to reading more. This...
Duke Who Outlawed Jelly Beans (Alyson Wonderland)Duke Who Outlawed Jelly Beans (Alyson Wonderland)
Best Price: $59.99
The Duke Who Outlawed Jelly Beans, by Johnny Valentine, is a collection of five original fairy...

3 Plays: The Boys in the Band; A Breeze from the Gulf; For Reasons That Remain Unclear3 Plays: The Boys in the Band; A Breeze from the Gulf; For Reasons That Remain Unclear
Best Price: $8.89
I wonder sometimes why so few people know who Mart Crowley is. It doesn't seem unreasonable...
The Lesbian Parenting Book: A Guide to Creating Families and Raising ChildrenThe Lesbian Parenting Book: A Guide to Creating Families and Raising Children
Best Price: $5.61
loved it - so helpful - instantly fabulous and affirming. Although not all of it was relevant...
Single Mothers In International Context: Mothers Or Workers? (Gender & Society : Feminist Perspectives on the Past and Present)Single Mothers In International Context: Mothers Or Workers? (Gender & Society : Feminist Perspectives on the Past and Present)
Single mothers caring for dependent children are an important and increasing population in...
My Child Is Gay: How Parents React When They Hear the NewsMy Child Is Gay: How Parents React When They Hear the News
Best Price: $8.00
As a gay guy, this book has had a huge impact on me. I am 36 years old, have been with my...
Lesbians choosing motherhood: Legal issues in donor inseminationLesbians choosing motherhood: Legal issues in donor insemination

Mothers-in-Law and Daughters-in-Law: Understanding the Relationship and What Makes Them Friends or FoeMothers-in-Law and Daughters-in-Law: Understanding the Relationship and What Makes Them Friends or Foe
We all know - have perhaps told a few - stories about mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law. It...
Courting ChangeCourting Change
A lesbian couple rears a child together and, after the biological mother dies, the surviving...
The Gay Baby BoomThe Gay Baby Boom
The gay and lesbian community is experiencing a baby boom. Advances in gay rights coupled with...
Adoption by Lesbians and Gay Men: A New Dimension in Family DiversityAdoption by Lesbians and Gay Men: A New Dimension in Family Diversity
Best Price: $29.80
The practice of adoption has changed dramatically over the past half century, with profound...
Families We ChooseFamilies We Choose
Best Price: $19.39
As a gay man, the cover photo on this revised edition (by Chantel Regnault) spoke volumes to...

Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass: Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba TownMother Is Gold, Father Is Glass: Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba Town
Best Price: $17.78
Lorelle D. Semley explores the historical and political meanings of motherhood in West Africa...
The Other Mother: A Lesbian'S Fight For Her Daughter (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies)The Other Mother: A Lesbian'S Fight For Her Daughter (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies)
Best Price: $1.25
Her writing style is ridiculous, flowery and forced-sounding. But the story Abrams has to tell...
What About the Children: Sons and Daughters of Lesbian and Gay Parents Talk About Their Lives (Sexual Politics)What About the Children: Sons and Daughters of Lesbian and Gay Parents Talk About Their Lives (Sexual Politics)
Best Price: $18.95
An account of the impact of growing up in a different kind of family, this book provides...
Beyond Acceptance: Parents of Lesbians and Gays Talk About Their ExperiencesBeyond Acceptance: Parents of Lesbians and Gays Talk About Their Experiences
Best Price: $0.99
I was pretty impressed with this book as I've now read a couple gay related books. It was...
Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up with Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender ParentsOut of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up with Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parents
Best Price: $4.50
As the bi-lesbian poly pagan mother of a small child, I know my daughter will soon encounter...

The BoyThe Boy
Best Price: $5.00
Reminiscent of both Steven King and Patrick McCabe in creating an atmosphere of fear and dread,...
Working Women and Their Families (Family Studies Text series)Working Women and Their Families (Family Studies Text series)
With so many of today's mothers employed in the workforce, this concise volume considers the...
Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of TechnoscienceQueering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience
Best Price: $20.00
Originally developed to help heterosexual couples, fertility treatments such as in vitro...
A Seahorse YearA Seahorse Year
In Stacey D?Erasmo?s acclaimed second novel, a quintessentially modern family is ultimately...
Now That You Know: A Parents' Guide to Understanding Their Gay and Lesbian Children, Updated EditionNow That You Know: A Parents' Guide to Understanding Their Gay and Lesbian Children, Updated Edition
Best Price: $3.69
This was a very important book in 1979 when it was first published, a book that I often...

Lesbian Motherhood: Gender, Families and Sexual Citizenship (Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life)Lesbian Motherhood: Gender, Families and Sexual Citizenship (Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life)
Best Price: $71.22
This book studies the growing number of lesbian women embarking on parenthood after coming out....
Something to Tell YouSomething to Tell You
Best Price: $8.25
Even now, at the end of the twentieth century, many still have difficulty standing up and...
The Lesbian Family Life CycleThe Lesbian Family Life Cycle
Best Price: $58.80
This is the first book to examine the special bonds and stresses, common to lesbian families and...
When Children Want Children: THE URBAN CRISIS OF TEENAGE CHILDBEARINGWhen Children Want Children: THE URBAN CRISIS OF TEENAGE CHILDBEARING
Best Price: $19.97
In this investigative journalism gem, award winning Washington Post reporter, Leon Dash,...
Village Mothers: Three Generations of Change in Russia and Tataria (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies)Village Mothers: Three Generations of Change in Russia and Tataria (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies)
Most people outside Russia perceive it as a Slavic, Christian nation. That is a wrong way of...

Challenging Conceptions: Pregnancy and Parenting Beyond the Traditional Family (Women on Women)Challenging Conceptions: Pregnancy and Parenting Beyond the Traditional Family (Women on Women)
Best Price: $1.99
Challenging Conceptions: Pregnancy and Parenting Beyond the Traditional Family (Women on Women)
Family OutingFamily Outing
Best Price: $3.00
The thesis is, "Yeah, for us and boo to our enemies". Enemies meaning anybody...
Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies (Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities)Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies (Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities)
Best Price: $73.59
In Mass Hysteria , Rebecca Kukla examines the present-day medical and cultural practices...
Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children: Research on the Family Life Cycle (Contemporary Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Psyc)Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children: Research on the Family Life Cycle (Contemporary Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Psyc)
Best Price: $39.42
This text should be required reading for all policymakers, lawyers, practitioners, researchers,...
Times Two: Two Women in Love and the Happy Family They MadeTimes Two: Two Women in Love and the Happy Family They Made
Best Price: $0.01
As some other reviews have mentioned, I too have been a follower of Kristen's band for...

Donovan's Big DayDonovan's Big Day
Best Price: $7.50
Donovan's two moms are getting married, and he can't wait for the celebration to begin....
Balancing Work and Love: Jewish Women Facing the Family-Career ChallengeBalancing Work and Love: Jewish Women Facing the Family-Career Challenge
Best Price: $2.57
In her book, Elaine Grudin Denholtz interviews Jewish women in different stages of their working...
Indelible (Modern Romance (Bold Strokes Books))Indelible (Modern Romance (Bold Strokes Books))
Best Price: $4.89
Angie Dressen is a single mother bringing up her ten year old son Oliver. They live with...
Liberty, Equality, Maternity (Legenda)Liberty, Equality, Maternity (Legenda)
Best Price: $29.94
Motherhood is fundamental in debates concerning French individual and national identity. While...
Shockproof Sydney SkateShockproof Sydney Skate
Sydney Skate has dubbed himself "Shockproof": He decoded his mother's gossip with...

Womyn I have known youWomyn I have known youComing Out, Coming Home: Helping Families Adjust to a Gay or Lesbian ChildComing Out, Coming Home: Helping Families Adjust to a Gay or Lesbian Child
Dr. LaSala's book invites readers to listen in as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender...
The Lesbian Family Life CycleThe Lesbian Family Life Cycle
Best Price: $8.57
Despite the rapidly growing number of lesbian families in this country, until now little...
  
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