Books Inc. Berkeley proudly welcomes local author Minna Dubin to the shop for a celebration of her honest exploration of motherhood, Mom Rage!
Minna Dubin will be joined in conversation by Tomas Moniz.
A frank, feminist examination of the hidden crisis of rage facing American mothers--and how we can fix it!
Mothers aren't supposed to be angry. Still, Minna Dubin was an angry mom: exhausted by the grueling, thankless work of full-time parenting and feeling her career slip away, she would find herself screaming at her child or exploding at her husband.
When Dubin pushed past her shame and talked with other mothers about how she was feeling, she realized that she was far from alone. Mom Rage is Dubin's groundbreaking work of reportage about an unspoken crisis of anger sweeping the country--and the world. She finds that while a specific instance of rage might be triggered by something as simple as a child who won't tie her shoes, the roots of the anger go far deeper, from the unequal burden of childcare shouldered by moms to the flattening of women's identities once they have kids. Drawing on insights from moms across the spectrum of race, sexual orientation, and class, she offers practical tools to help readers disarm their rage in the moment, while never losing sight of the broader social change we need to stop raging for good.
"The author's candid appraisal of her own rage . . . and her penetrating insights make for captivating reading. It's an astute account of how society fails mothers." -- Publishers Weekly
" Mom Rage makes crucial space for all of us who have experienced the sudden, terrifying urge to stab a mattress with a kitchen knife, punch a wall, or squeeze our children a little too tightly. Dubin reminds us our darkest moments are symptoms of systemic failings, not signs of personal flaws--and that our anger should be harnessed as an animating force for equity."
-- Angela Garbes, author of Essential Labor
" Mom Rage does an expert job weaving data and research to explain why moms are in crisis while also giving us thoughtful individual and systemic solutions."-- Eve Rodsky, author of Find Your Unicorn Space
"Breaking down the unnamable feelings so many women have as mothers, Mom Rage is a must-read for women who struggle to reconcile the cultural pressure to be 'good mothers' with the powerful negative emotions that come with parenting."-- Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Become Her
