num_pages: 160
description: In the wake of Pipher's book Reviving Ophelia, there has been an enormous groundswell of interest, and concern, about raising today's young girls. Yet in the African American community, there is a paucity of materials focused on mothers and daughters. As a mother of ten children, Esther Davis-Thompson understands women's concerns about raising young girls. Continuing in the spirit of her first book, MotherLove, which was hailed by Publishers Weekly as "beautifully lyrical reflections on motherhood" and described by Feminist Bookstore News as "personal, inspiring, empowering, and timely," Esther weaves another series of powerful meditations. It is only, she proposes, by centering first on healing their own inner spirit that mothers can hope to nurture a strong, feminine spirit in today's daughters. Written in the voice of a loving mother to her daughter, or perhaps the voice of a woman's inner Wise Woman to herself, Raising Up Queens offers a challenge to all who are raising the next generation's powerful "We are the generation of women who must re-start the living of what we instinctively know . . . if we will sing our most-real songs loud enough and strong enough, our daughters will come to know their own voices."
language: English
title: Raising Up Queens: Loving Our Daughters Loud and Strong
titlecomplete: Raising Up Queens: Loving Our Daughters Loud and Strong
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Publishing/Editing Network