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Overview
Use your Mother Power to make a difference.Dr. Jacqueline Hornor Plumez became inspired by the power of women when vacationing in Argentina. There she learned about the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo-women who risked their lives by protesting the kidnapping, torture and murder of their children by their country's brutal junta. She started to investigate women throughout the world who gained economic, political and moral power by using their natural maternal instincts.
Through her research and in-depth interviews with over 50 women from all walks of life, Dr. Plumez realized that there is a new, but as yet undiscovered, movement around the world: Mother Power. Mother Power is changing society today, just as women's liberation changed it a few decades ago. In story after story, she shows how mothers have become powerful forces for justice and fairness, and have dramatically changed the world in which we live. Along the way, she offers prescriptive suggestions on how women can enhance and use their own inherent Mother Power.
The reader will meet women who have used Mother Power to successfully challenge criminals from neighborhood drug dealers to corporate polluters; mothers who have made the practice of law, politics, science and medicine more humane, caring and effective; and mothers who have used their maternal skills to gain respect in all areas of the arts. Readers will see how women have used maternal management to create their own successful businesses and non-profit organizations that benefit society. The most exciting thing Dr. Plumez learned is that even women without income, education or other traditional sources of influence can use Mother Power to achieve their goals.
Synopsis
Discover the difference that mothers have made all over the world.
Publishers Weekly
Plumez, a psychologist and career counselor, admits that until a few years ago, she would have called "mother power" an oxymoron. Like many, she grew up watching fathers wield power, using their strength to often bend, if not break, the wills of the women in their lives, discouraging them from engaging in activities where they would find strength, courage and purpose. It wasn't until she was vacationing in Argentina as an adult that she saw mother power at work, among a group of uneducated, loosely organized, grieving women, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Their weekly rallies protesting the "disappearance" of their sons, daughters and husbands eventually led to the collapse of the corrupt government in 1983. Plumez fills her meandering book with stories of like-minded women who chose not to suffer silently, from women who work for peace in Northern Ireland to a teacher in the South Bronx who has curbed a longtime local epidemic of fighting between students. The usual suspects are here (e.g., Mothers Against Drunk Driving), along with some lesser-known mother heroes, like Daryl Roth, a playwright who nurtures actors as if they were her own family. The psychologist in Plumez reminds readers of the skill most little girls acquire "tend and befriend" which replaces the "fight or flight" mindset adopted by many boys. This feminine trait manifests in her stories. But because of its breadth (Plumez covers everything from sex education to corporate polluters and racial strife), the book's central theme is hard to grasp. Part homage to strong women, part self-help guide to taking control, this work inspires. Agent, Loretta Barrett. (Mar.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.