Between mothers and sons
Subtitle: women writers talk about having sons and raising men
By: edited by Patricia Stevens.
Contributors: Stevens, Patricia, 1944-
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Mothers and sons.; Women authors -- Family relationships.
Description: In this collection of mothers' personal narratives, some classic writers, as well as exciting new voices, ponder the conflicts and joys of raising sons. Patricia Stevens's Between Mothers and Sons is the first anthology in which women writers attempt to answer the question that all mothers have contemplated in the course of mothering the opposite sex: "Who is this male child who came out of my body?".

From the earliest days of nursing to the good-byes as college and adulthood appear on the threshold, from adoptive families to biracial, from Native American to African-American mothers, these pages cover a broad range of experience. These writers collectively explore the delights and frustrations, the deep and often-conflicted emotions they feel in their roles as mothers to their male children.