Speaking Engagements

Highlights from Book Club and Event Feedback

“Your book changed my life.”

“This book is blowing my mind! I can’t stop thinking about it, I can’t stop talking about it.”

ON NPR

“Shame, guilt, and blame” are all common feelings after losing a pregnancy, says therapist @Joyce_McFadden. What does it mean to miscarry? And for something so common, why don’t we talk about it more?

Listen to Joyce >

A woman has her blood pressure checked by a registered nurse practitioner during a checkup at Planned Parenthood. JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES

Speaking at the United Nations

Joyce addresses American girls’ experience on this UN panel on girls’ puberty and confidence with representatives of WHO, UNESCO, UNICEF and Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

Video Footage is 1:41 to 1:46:43

Washington University

“McFadden’s pitch for more open discussion of sexuality has made Modern Mothering a favorite assignment of students at the Brown School taking sexuality courses. They share it with their mothers in hopes of jumpstarting a longed for dialogue about sex. Several students have lost their books to mothers equally fascinated to query why the silence seems so natural and wanting to take the opportunity to make up for lost time.”–Susan Stiritz, PhD, Professor of Sexual Studies, Washington University.

Independent Girls’ School in Manhattan

“Thanks for your amazing work last week. The classes loved it! I just had both classes again and their feedback was so positive. In fact, one 10th grader told me how she could not stop thinking about the discussion, and another shared that her mother has now ordered the book and will continue talking to her about it. One student shared how she went home and told her mother she would like to spend more time talking to her about this. WOW! Thank you.” –Guido Sanchez, MPH, Head of Health Education Department, K-12.

Joyce is available to speak professionally in the New York metropolitan area, and on certain occasions will travel outside this area. Venues include associations and organizations, mothers’ groups, pediatric and ob/gyn practices, schools, colleges, and conferences.

If you would like to book Joyce to speak at your next event, please click here to contact her.

Reviews

"McFadden offers insight and honesty in a discussion of the healthy ways mothers can help their daughters grow comfortable and knowledgable about their sexuality...There are hurdles to cross and backs to be straightened when it comes to this topic, but daughters need their mothers, and it's time they heard their voices. An empowering resource for mothers and daughters everywhere."
—Kirkus Reviews

"A fascinating and empowering text for women of all ages."
—Publishers Weekly

"I couldn't put it down. This book is a revolution in mindful caring for girls. It tells us how to dispel our own mother/daughter myths and how to realize and support our girls in the recognition and celebration of their sexual selves to gain lifelong physical and mental happiness. This is THE book I would recommend to all my mothers of girls and to all their doctors, teachers and therapists. I wish I had this book when I started in pediatric practice 20 years ago: from it I've learned that I missed so many opportunities to nurture my female patients as females growing into themselves. I love this book."
—Barbara H. Landreth, M.D., Clinical Instructor in Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medical College, Pediatrician, The New York-Presbyterian Hospital

"What an amazing and insightful guide for mothers facing the huge challenge of supporting their daughters amidst the many "hate your body" media messages that assault all of us daily."
—Judy Norsigian, co-author of OUR BODIES, OURSELVES

"Your Daughter's Bedroom is loaded with the kind of insight, wisdom, and practical advice that all mothers need to know to raise healthy daughters who are comfortable with their own sexuality. I highly recommend it!"
—Christiane Northrup, M.D., ob/gyn physician and author of the New York Times bestsellers: WOMEN'S BODIES, WOMEN'S WISDOM and THE WISDOM OF MENOPAUSE

"Using thousands of intimate interviews with women Joyce McFadden argues that –despite ourselves and inadvertently—sexism comes, in part, from the unhealthy messages we send our daughters about sex and behavior. A groundbreaking look at sexuality, mothers, daughters, and the myriad subtle ways one generation of women shapes the next."
—Jennifer Baumgardner, author of MANIFESTA, LOOK BOTH WAYS and ABORTION & LIFE

"In this important book Joyce McFadden shows how mothers affect their daughters' sense of self through the sort of sexuality they model as well as their explicit communications and exhortations. It's an honest, surprising and compelling look at this crucial contemporary dilemma."
—Jessica Benjamin, Professor of Psychology, New York University, author of THE BONDS OF LOVE

"An important book that gets at the heart of the mother and daughter bond and finally explodes the myth that women have to turn themselves into sexless Stepford wives to be good mothers. Expansive, honest, informed, and real."
—Deborah Siegel, author of SISTERHOOD, INTERRUPTED