Mothering Sons: A Crucial Feminist Challenge

Reflects on their experience as feminists who gave birth to sons. This raised a whole range of issues involving their feminism in a new, more acute way. Reviews the literature on mothering sons; the intense and passionate nature of the relationship between women and their sons. Notes the themes of over-protection, over-loving and the need to cut the child adrift; the place of male role models and the issue of respect for women.