Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence. Rebecca Walker decided to have a baby. As a member of the generation who believe in 'having it all', a career and a baby, she came to realise that having a baby can mean losing oneself in caring for another. The subject of motherhood has dominated[...]

The Civil Rights movement brought author Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Leventhal together, and in 1969 their daughter, Rebecca, was born. Some saw this unusual copper-colored girl as an outrage or an oddity; others viewed her as a symbol of harmony, a triumph of love over hate. But after her parents d[...]

More important and timely than ever-a collection of illuminating essays on the shifting definition of the modern American family.
Edited by bestselling writer Rebecca Walker, this fascinating exploration of today's American family features essays by prominent voices such as Z.Z. Packer, Dan Sav[...]