Crittenden, A. (2001). The price of motherhood: Why the most important job in the world is still the least valued. New York: Metropolitan Books.
The current studies that have been done and hundreds of interviews show that though women have gotten more rights that mothers have not to the point that the costs of motherhood are everywhere.

Hardy, S. B. (1999). Mother nature: A history of mothers, infants and natural selection. New York: Pantheon Books.
By removing the stereotypes of mothers and women, a radical new view of motherhood shows that selfless love is not at the heart of motherhood.

Montessori, M. (1995) The absorbent mind. New York: Henry Holt.
A child’s most critical development years are their first six years, and in this time they can absorb a lot of information if we just teach them.

Orenstein, P. (2001).  Flux: Women on sex, work, love, kids, and life. New York: Anchor Books.
Through a wide-range of interviews, how women deal with the question of balancing motherhood and life ambitions is explored.

Rich, A. (1995). Anger and tenderness. In Of woman born: Motherhood as experience and institution (pp. 21-40). New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
Drawing on personal life, history, research, and literature, the author tells the story of the women.

Ruddick, S. (1990). Maternal thinking: Towards a politics of peace. London: The Women’s Press.
Through a discussion of mothers and how their day-to-day activities can change their mind-set, readers learn that this mind-set can actually make mothers more peaceful.

Scheper-Hughes, N. (1992). Death without weeping: The violence of everyday life in Brazil. Berkley: University of California Press.
Through the related observations of fieldwork, the lack of maternal love of a mother in Brazil when her children are more likely to die than to live is discussed.