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I saw myself in many of these women. Bazelon makes a strong case for why we working moms should be proud of our professional accomplishments and urges us to stop feeling guilty about our refusal to let motherhood define who we are as women. --Reyna Grande, author of A Dream Called Home In her bold new book, Lara Bazelon argues that, for mothers with careers, work-life balance is both a myth and a trap. It is yet another impossible standard to which women are held, and to which they hold themselves--every inevitable failure to achieve equipoise is a hard shove down the shame spiral. But it doesn't have to be this way. Bazelon's book is a call to action. She invites readers to scrap societally imposed expectations and to consider a provocative question: What if embracing professional ambition, and the imbalance that comes with it, actually makes women good mothers? --Author of Sisters In Hate Lara Bazelon has written a must-read call to action for women. By persuasively arguing that maternal ambition can benefit our children, she empowers working women to reject the false construct of 'mom guilt' and instead embrace our passions. --Elise Jordan, MSNBC political analyst and Morning Joe panelist Motherhood and ambition have previously been treated at odds with each other, but Lara Bazelon shatters that narrative and offers a path that empowers mothers to own their ambition and have the career and the family lives they want, on their terms. --Hitha Palepu, author of We're Speaking This is a fascinating and provocative book that will resonate and spark debate. A must-read. --Emily Oster, author of Crib Sheet This smart, affirming, and engaging book should be at the top of every ambitious woman's reading list. Mothers who want more--when it comes to both their careers, their relationships, and their children--will find themselves seen, heard, and championed. The women in Bazelon's book feel like a group of friends you never knew you had, pointing the way to a larger community with the power to change the way you think about your own power and potential. --Laura Niider, co-director of Northwestern University's Center on Wrongful Convictions Ambitious Like a Mother is an anthem for mothers everywhere: dream big, for your children and for yourself. Bazelon's bold thesis--that ambitious mothers should embrace imbalance and empowerment--is backed up by stories that will make you laugh, cry, and raise both fists in the air. --Peggy Orenstein, author of Girls & Sex

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Lara Bazleon is a writer, teacher, and advocate for racial and social justice. She is law professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, where she directs the Criminal & Juvenile Justice and Racial Justice Clinics and holds the Barnett Chair in Trial Advocacy. Before that, she worked as a deputy federal public defender and the director of a Los Angeles-based innocence project. Along the way, she married, had two children, got divorced, and worked to create a different kind of family. Bazelon's writing seeks to break down the barriers between the various fields in which she works and invites her readers to open their minds to unexpected-even unlikely-ways of thinking about problems that may not be so intractable after all.

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