Balancing Acts

TO HELL WITH ALL THAT

Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife

By Caitlin Flanagan

Little, Brown. 244 pp. $22.95

MOMMY WARS

Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families

Edited by Leslie Morgan Steiner

Random House. 336 pp. $24.95

UNSUNG HEROINES

Single Mothers and the American Dream

By Ruth Sidel

Univ. of California. 251 pp. Paperback, $17.95