keywords: Motherhood

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Forty and feeling fine

    • Jen Vuk
    • 29 October 2008
    3 Comments

    Turning 40 is like any age — unless you're a woman. French writer Anais Nin wrote that we 'are made up of layers, cells, constellations'. Is it any wonder that at 40 those layers and cells start to settle in places we'd rather they didn't?

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Mem Fox and the parable of the green sheep

    • Sarah Kanowski
    • 10 September 2008
    15 Comments

    Working mums were 'offended' and 'disgusted' by Mem Fox's childcare slam. Other critics berated 'selfish mothers' and a society sick with affluenza. There was one word missing word from all the brouhaha: 'fathers'.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book of the week

    • John Bartlett
    • 29 August 2008
    1 Comment

    In 2003 Elders of the Ngarrindjeri Nation stood up to the South Australian Governor on traditional lands issues. The same spirit of defiance personifies this chronicle of the stories and aspirations of powerful Ngarrindjeri women.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Paid leave fans the maternal flame

    • Jen Vuk
    • 02 July 2008
    6 Comments

    Parenting deserves more than a bonus, it deserves to be exulted and supported in its many and varied forms. With so many women in the workforce a paid maternity leave scheme is the linchpin upon which other 'family-friendly' policies depend.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The alien landscape of a tumultuous midlife

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 15 May 2008

    Helen Hunt has entered middle age gracefully, and appears both physically and emotionally haggard in this proudly adult drama. An unashamed tearjerker, the real triumph of Then She Found Me is that it's also very funny.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Boys need not be boys forever

    • Tim Martyn
    • 16 October 2006
    2 Comments

    Adolescent boys of Western Kenya's Bukusu tribe are ushered to the threshold of manhood by participating in rituals in which they must endure all without exhibiting pain. Western society lacks procedures in which boys can transform and emotionally re-emerge, ready to carry the burden of male responsibility.

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  • RELIGION

    The ministry of women

    • Annette Binger
    • 31 May 2006

    Annette Binger on secret women’s business—female clerics.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The great divide

    • Virginia Bourke
    • 14 May 2006

    Virginia Bourke examines the assumptions that underlie equality in parenting and work.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book business

    • Sara Dowse
    • 25 April 2006

    Reading the Sydney Writers’ Festival

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The nurturing instinct

    • Sara Dowse
    • 23 April 2006

    Sara Dowse admires Anne Manne’s book Motherhood: How should we care for our  children?

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