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The School for Good Mothers
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The School for Good Mothers

By Jessamine Chan ,

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The Push
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The Push

By Ashley Audrain ,

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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
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Of Woman Born

By Adrienne Rich ,

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The Unmumsy Mum: The Hilarious Highs and Emotional Lows of Motherhood
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The Unmumsy Mum

By Sarah Turner ,

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Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
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Like a Mother

By Angela Garbes ,

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The Part That Burns
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The Part That Burns

By Jeannine Ouellette ,

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Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection
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Mother Nature

By Sarah Blaffer Hrdy ,

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Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
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Essential Labor

By Angela Garbes ,

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My Wild and Sleepless Nights
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My Wild and Sleepless Nights

By Clover Stroud ,

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Motherhood
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Motherhood

By Sheila Heti ,

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Motherest
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Motherest

By Kristen Iskandrian ,

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It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs
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It. Goes. So. Fast.

By Mary Louise Kelly ,

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The House of Eve
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The House of Eve

By Sadeqa Johnson ,

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Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
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Relinquished

By Gretchen Sisson ,

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The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth
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The Quickening

By Elizabeth Rush ,

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Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica
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Contested Bodies

By Sasha Turner ,

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God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother
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God and Jetfire

By Amy Seek ,

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Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself
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Motherhood

By Lisa Marchiano ,

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We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood
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We Live for the We

By Dani McClain ,

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Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood
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Rise Up Singing

By Cecelie Berry ,

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Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines
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Revolutionary Mothering

By Alexis Pauline Gumbs (editor) , China Martens (editor) , Mai'a Williams (editor)

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Buddhism for Mothers: A Calm Approach to Caring for Yourself and Your Children
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Buddhism for Mothers

By Sarah Napthali ,

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The Mission of Motherhood: Touching Your Child's Heart of Eternity
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The Mission of Motherhood

By Sally Clarkson ,

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Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern World
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Fruitful

By Anne Richardson Roiphe ,

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The New Don't Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship
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The New Don't Blame Mother

By Paula Caplan ,

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I Couldn't Love You More
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I Couldn't Love You More

By Esther Freud ,

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All Adults Here
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All Adults Here

By Emma Straub ,

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I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
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I'll Show Myself Out

By Jessi Klein ,

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Motherwhelmed: Challenging Norms, Untangling Truths, and Restoring Our Worth to the World
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Motherwhelmed

By Beth Berry ,

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The Gift of an Ordinary Day
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The Gift of an Ordinary Day

By Katrina Kenison ,

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Mother Country
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Mother Country

By Irina Reyn ,

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Good-Enough Mother: The Perfectly Imperfect Book of Parenting
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Good-Enough Mother

By René Syler ,

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Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay: And Other Things I Had to Learn as a New Mom
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Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay

By Stefanie Wilder-Taylor ,

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I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids: Reinventing Modern Motherhood
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I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids

By Trisha Ashworth , Amy Nobile ,

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Baby Laughs: The Naked Truth About the First Year of Mommyhood
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Baby Laughs

By Jenny McCarthy ,

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The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood
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The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood

By Vicki Iovine ,

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The Second Nine Months: One Woman Tells the Real Truth about Becoming a Mom. Finally.
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The Second Nine Months

By Vicki Glembocki ,

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Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South
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Birthing a Slave

By Marie Jenkins Schwartz ,

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I Am Not Your Baby Mother
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I Am Not Your Baby Mother

By Candice Brathwaite ,

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Impersonation
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Impersonation

By Heidi Pitlor ,

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Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct
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Mom Genes

By Abigail Tucker ,

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Conceiving Identities: Maternity in Medieval Muslim Discourse and Practice
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Conceiving Identities

By Kathryn M. Kueny ,

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The Ten-Year Nap
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The Ten-Year Nap

By Meg Wolitzer ,

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After Birth
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After Birth

By Elisa Albert ,

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Reproduction
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Reproduction

By Louisa Hall ,

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Delicate Condition
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Delicate Condition

By Danielle Valentine ,

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The Possibility Mom: How to be a Great Mom and Pursue Your Dreams at the Same Time
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The Possibility Mom

By Lisa Canning ,

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More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood
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More

By Majka Burhardt ,

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Feng Shui Mommy: Creating Balance and Harmony Amidst the Chaos for Blissful Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
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Feng Shui Mommy

By Bailey Gaddis ,

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Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters
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Being There

By Erica Komisar ,

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Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History
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Mother Is a Verb

By Sarah Knott ,

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Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save An Old Science
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Unrooted

By Erin Zimmerman ,

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Motherhood: A Confession
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Motherhood

By Natalie Carnes ,

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The Mother Act
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The Mother Act

By Heidi Reimer ,

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Eleven Hours
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Eleven Hours

By Pamela Erens ,

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That Kind of Mother
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That Kind of Mother

By Rumaan Alam ,

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Not Her Daughter
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Not Her Daughter

By Rea Frey ,

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Ordinary Insanity
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Ordinary Insanity

By Sarah Menkedick ,

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Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts
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Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts

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Momma Zen
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Momma Zen

By Karen Maezen Miller ,

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I'll Tell You When I'm Home
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I'll Tell You When I'm Home

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