The Mother Archetype

Websites and blogs

Black Subjectivity and the Origins of American Gynecology
A look at the violent history of American gynecology.

Racial Disparities in Childbirth
Racial disparities in modern day American gynecology due to racism and chronic oppression.

Books

Motherhood: Poems about Mothers edited by Carmela Ciuraru

• Audre Lorde recalls “How the days went / While you were blooming within me”; Langston Hughes invokes a mother's empowering example: “Don't you fall now— / For I'se still goin', honey, / I'se still climbin', / And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.” More than one hundred poems collected here enshrine the miracle of motherhood.

The Continuum Concept: in Search of Happiness Lost by Jean Liedloff

• Restoring your natural instincts by freeing your mind from the “civilized” way that inhibits our ability to access our inner-knowing and helps us become nurturing parents.

Podcasts

Wise Traditions - Embraces Traditions From the Past for Optimal Health Today!
Save Your Local Farm
If we want nourishing food, we need to put our money where our mouth is.

Go Diaper Free - A Guide to Elimination Communication and Early Potty-Training
Go Diaper Free