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Conversations About Motherhood

Two years ago, The M Word: Conversations about Motherhood was published, a book that broadened our understanding about motherhood and womanhood. And extra-textually, The M Word has been part of a larger conversation about motherhood. Here are some other excellent books that have been contributing to that conversation as well.

by Kerry Clare · Tagged the m word, mother's day

Not the Whole Story

Challenging the Single Mother Narrative

edited by Judit Alcalde & Lea Caragata

MotherFumbler

by (author) Vicki Murphy

What We Once Believed

by (author) Andrea MacPherson

Mommyblogs and the Changing Face of Motherhood

by (author) May Friedman

Listen to the Squawking Chicken

When Mother Knows Best, What's a Daughter To Do? A Memoir (Sort Of)

by (author) Elaine Lui

Birding with Yeats

A Mother's Memoir

by (author) Lynn Thomson

Joy Is So Exhausting

by (author) Susan Holbrook

Charm

by (author) Christine McNair

Great Expectations

Twenty-Four True Stories about Childbirth

translated by Lisa Moore & Dede Crane

Between Interruptions

30 Women Tell the Truth About Motherhood

by (author) Cori Howard
prepared for publication by Key Porter Books

The Mother Zone

by (author) Marni Jackson

Pathologies

A Life in Essays

by (author) Susan Olding

Bear With Me

What They Don't Tell You About Pregnancy and New Motherhood

by (author) Diane Flacks

Sweet Devilry

by (author) Yi-Mei Tsiang

Out of Grief, Singing

A Memoir of Motherhood and Loss

by (author) Charlene Diehl

The House With the Broken Two

A Birthmother Remembers

by (author) Myrl Coulter

Mongoose Diaries, The

Excerpts from a mother's first year

by (author) Erin Noteboom

Deep Salt Water

by (author) Marianne Apostolides
illustrated by Catherine Mellinger

Interrogating Motherhood

by (author) Lynda R. Ross

What Remains

Object Lessons in Love and Loss

by (author) Karen Von Hahn

The Unfinished Dollhouse

A Memoir of Gender and Identity

by (author) Michelle Alfano

Mothers of the Nations

Indigenous Mothering as Global Resistance, Reclaiming and Recovery

edited by Dawn Memee Lavell-Harvard & Kim Anderson

Fresh Hell

Motherhood in Pieces

by (author) Carellin Brooks

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