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How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood, Masculinity, and the Making of My Family by Sonora Jha

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emotional informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

4.0

Read it read it read it. Whether you're a parent or a parent's child or just a person existing. It was informative and supportive.

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hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

HOW TO RAISE A FEMINIST SON is part memoir, part manifesto that provides insight, research, and practical advice on resisting patriarchal parenting. Sonora Jha uses her lived experiences growing up in Mumbai and later living as a single mother in America to frame the necessity of raising feminist sons. From navigating conversations around sex and consent to power dynamics and social media, Jha offers helpful tips and resources to help parents. Each chapter ends with a list of actionable items for practice/reflection.

This book couldn’t have come at a more perfect time. As a millennial mother of a young son, many of my discussions with my friends center the idea of raising feminist and socially conscious children. This intentional way of child rearing is a form of active resistance against patriarchy, misogyny/misogynoir, racism, capitalism, homophobia, transphobia, and every other oppressive societal norm upon which empire sits.

I particularly appreciated learning more about Jha’s culture, especially the gods and goddesses from which she’s drawn motivation on her parenting journey. It was especially moving reading how Black Lives Matter impacted Jha’s perspective on race and anti-Blackness in America, that such racial realities play a significant role in the way Black and brown folks must navigate parenting our children. Jha gives us hope of a better future for us all.

This is the book for you, if you love:

🎞 Feminist film, TV, and books

🗣 #OwnVoices narratives

🗯 Practical advice

📝 Thoughtful journal reflections

Whether you read this alone or grab a few of your parent friends to join... this book should find a spot on your shelf.

Special thanks to Sasquatch Books and NetGalley for the ARC!

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