Recommended Non-Fiction, including 'Momoir':
(Austrlian titles marked with an *)
The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined Women - Susan Douglas J. and Meredith W. Michaels
The Mother of All Myths: How Society Moulds and Constrains Mothers - Aminatta Forna
The Mask of Motherhood: How Mothering Changes Everything and Why We Pretend It Doesn't - Susan Maushart*
Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood - Moyra Davey (ed)
Misconceptions: Truth, Lies and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood - Naomi Wolf
The Maternal is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change - Shari MacDonald Strong (ed)
The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the Least Valued - Ann Crittenden
Maternal Theory: Essential Readings - Andrea O'Reilly (ed)
Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety - Judith Warner
Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About It - Sue Palmer
Taking Parenting Public: The Case for a New Social Movement - Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Nancy Ranking, Cornel West (eds)
A Potent Spell - Janna Malamud Smith
The Myths of Motherhood: How Culture Reinvents the Good Mother - Shari L. Thurer
The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right - Alexis Jetter, Annelise Orleck, Diana Taylor (eds)
The Great Feminist Denial - Monica Dux, Zora Simic*
The Divided Heart: Art and Motherhood - Rachel Power*
Motherhood: How Should We Care For Our Children? - Anne Manne*
Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other) Minute of It - Andrea J. Buchanan
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution - Adrienne Rich
A Better Woman - Susan Johnson*
Mommies Who Drink: Sex, Drugs and Other Distant Memories: True Tales of Modern Motherhood - Brett Paesel
Sue Goodwin - The Good Mother*
See also MOTHERS Book Bag for Recommendations
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