Book Review: Power Women: Stories of Motherhood, Faith, and the Academy

By Dr. Michelle Reyes

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hat if there was a way to see our different callings as women - as mothers, wives, academics, and ministry leaders - not as forces pulling us in different directions, but as a single effort working toward a common goal? That is, in many ways, the question that Power Women seeks to answer.

Dr. Michelle Ami Reyes, AACC Vice President, sat down virtually with Dr. Maria Wang and Jenny Pak, both contributors and parent-professors. Dr. Wang offers insights in how to break the exhausting cycle that women often fall into in trying to make room for everything (teaching, service, motherhood). Dr. Pak offers insights from her experiences as a wife, mother, pastor’s wife, psychologist, and professor on a fundamental perspective shift she underwent in her forties that has helped give clarity and alignment in her different pursuits.

Power Women is a useful book for women academics specifically, but also for any Asian mom who feels overwhelmed with life’s many demands. Both Dr. Wang and Dr. Pak offer insights into specific Asian cultural factors that add extra pressures and expectations for working Asian moms. The diverse voices of Asian women and academics in Power Women is refreshing and inspiring.

You can read an excerpt of Power Women here.

Purchase your copy here today.

Photo courtesy of InterVarsity Press.

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Michelle Ami Reyes, PhD, is the Vice President of the AACC. She is also the author of Becoming All Things: How Small Changes Lead to Lasting Connections Across Cultures.