Leslie Morgan Steiner

More Magazine "Back in Business" (June 2007)
I found that, contrary to much of what we read in the media, taking a few years off to care for children does not spell the end of a great career.

Mommy Wars
Random House
With motherhood comes one of the toughest decisions of a woman's life: stay home or pursue a career? As an executive at the Washington Post and a mother of three, Leslie Morgan Steiner has lived and breathed every side of the mommy wars. Rather than just watch the battles rage, she decided to do something about it. She asked 26 outspoken mothers to write about their lives and the choices that have worked for them. The result is a frank, surprising, utterly refreshing look at American motherhood. Mommy Wars is a book by and for and about the real experts on motherhood and hard work: the women at home, in the office, on the job every day of their lives.

Praise for Mommy Wars
“Ever wondered why women waste so much energy judging other women? Here is a collection of terrific essays, full of distilled female wisdom, that tell it like it is. I can’t think of a mother who wouldn’t enjoy this book.”

-- Allison Pearson, author of I Don't Know How She Does It

"Mommy Wars puts real women's voices to animate what is often a frenzied but ill-informed debate -- thus bringing the texture, warmth, hope and angst of real mommies -- and real wars -- to the table. Challenging and refreshing!'

-- Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth, Misconceptions and The Treehouse

"Mommy Wars is a riveting page turner that brings into sharp focus the issues which tear apart all mothers today. If you read any new book this season, let it be this one."

--Esther Wachs Book, author of Why the Best Man for the Job is a Woman


Table of Contents

"Our Inner Catfight" by Leslie Morgan Steiner
"Neither Here Nor There" by Sandy Hingston
"Baby Battle" by Susan Cheever
"Sharks & Jets" by Page Evans
"The Mother Load" by Terri Minsky
"Guilty" by Dawn Drzal
"The Donna Reed Syndrome" by Lonnae O’Neal Parker
"Mother Superior" by Catherine Clifford
"Good Enough" by Beth Brophy
"Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn" by Lois R. Shea
"What Goes Unsaid" by Sydney Trent
"I Hate Everybody" by Leslie Lehr
"Before; After" by Molly Jong-Fast
"I Do Know How She Does" It by Ann Misiaszek Sarnoff
"Red Boots and Cole Haans" by Monica Buckley Price
"Working Mother, Not Guilty" by Sara Nelson
"Feminism Meets the Free Market" by Jane Smiley
"Happy" by Anne Marie Feld
"I Never Dreamed I’d Have So Many Children" by Lila Leff
"On Being A Radical Feminist Stay-at-Home Mom" by Inda Schaenen
"Being There" by Reshma Memon Yaqub
"Russian Dolls" by Veronica Chambers
"Peace & Carrots" by Carolyn Hax
"Unprotected" by Natalie Smith Parra
"Julia" by Anna Fels
"On Balance" by Jane Juska
"My Baby's Shoes Are Size Thirteen" by Iris Krasnow
"Ending the Mommy Wars" by Leslie Morgan Steiner