Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
By: Angela Garbes
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America…
Want to Read $ 13.99"We are caught between how we were raised and how we really want to live."-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
"More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible,"-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
"Doing this requires knowledge of the history of mothering and care work—how they came to be seen as naturally female, which is to say invisible and undervalued."-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
"When you become a mother, you engender life, endless possibilities. Mothering is creative in a very literal sense—it is cultivating all that potential, bringing a small person into consciousness."-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
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1. Splinters
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3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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2. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
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Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
3. Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
By: Becky Kennedy
4.55
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"This book is for any parent who has ever struggled under the substantial weight of caregiving--whi… read more
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4. I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
By: Jessi Klein
3.90
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed New York … read more
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"A mother's heroic journey is not about how she leaves, but how she stays."-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
"But becoming a mother alters every ince of your body, your routine, your soul, your heart."-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
"Motherhood leaves you inevitably and profoundly changed; you can be similar to who you were - maybe? - but you'll never be the same."-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
"Because now I know that everything bad can happen, and I am responsible for it not. Because sometimes I feel like keeping us from dying will kill me. Because I am on board, and I'm exhausted. Because…"-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
5. Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood
By: Jessica Grose
3.48
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"If this book feels like it’s sounding the alarm on the state of American motherhood, well, that’s… read more
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6. Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture
By: Sara Petersen
3.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
On Instagram, the private work of mothering is turned into a public performance, generating bil… read more
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7. Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood
By: Chelsea Conaboy
3.62
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Health and science journalist Chelsea Conaboy explodes the concept of “maternal instinct” and tells… read more
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8. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
By: Tricia Hersey
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more
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9. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
10. Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
By: Angela Garbes
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America… read more
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"We are caught between how we were raised and how we really want to live."-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
"More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible,"-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
"Doing this requires knowledge of the history of mothering and care work—how they came to be seen as naturally female, which is to say invisible and undervalued."-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
"When you become a mother, you engender life, endless possibilities. Mothering is creative in a very literal sense—it is cultivating all that potential, bringing a small person into consciousness."-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
11. And Yet: Poems
By: Kate Baer
3.97
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind… read more
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"Let your life rest on what is already good."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
"It's just another day in the good-bad, bad-good earth machine."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
"We expect so much of children, hovering above them like giant, invincible gods. What a racket to discover as an adult, how little we have to pass down."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
12. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
By: Camille T. Dungy
4.19
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more
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13. Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture
By: Virginia Sole-Smith
4.31
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids believe that “fat” is b… read more
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14. How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
By: Mia Birdsong
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
An Invitation to Community and Models for Connection After almost every presentation activist a… read more
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15. The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
By: Julie Phillips
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An NPR Best Book of 2022 An insightful, provocative, and witty exploration of the relationship bet… read more
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16. The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
By: Virginia Sole-Smith
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today’s toxic food cul… read more
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"Food is supposed to sustain and nurture us. Eating well, any doctor will tell you, is the most important thing you can do to take care of yourself. Feeding well, any human will tell you, is the most …"-Virginia Sole-Smith, The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
"So it's our discomfort - and even disgust - with the joy of eating that frightens us. And that's because of a culture that tells us, in a thousand ways, from the time we first start solid foods, that…"-Virginia Sole-Smith, The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
17. Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide
By: Britt Hawthorne
4.44
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A must-have guide to raising inclusive, antiracist children from educato… read more
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"We don't need perfect antiracist parents; we need parents willing to practice antiracism with curiosity and commitment."-Britt Hawthorne, Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide
"Children of the global majority experience systemic racism and also interpersonal racism, and the latter is coming from their white peers."-Britt Hawthorne, Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide
"Most important, whenever our children respond with feelings of guilt, or even shame, we can respond with, 'I love you anyway.' The way you respond to your children in the tough times will become thei…"-Britt Hawthorne, Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide
"Antiracism calls us to live a life full of intentional acts, to come to new understandings and commit to new ways to live justly--not to repeat patterns of oppression. Two of the biggest obstacles to…"-Britt Hawthorne, Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide
18. The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth
By: Elizabeth Rush
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Risi… read more
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"It occurred to me... I ought to treat Antarctica not as a desolate outpost at the end of the earth but as a place where life begins."-Elizabeth Rush, The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth
19. Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse"
By: Emily Raboteau
4.15
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau uses the lens of motherhood to craft a powerfully mo… read more
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20. More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood
By: Majka Burhardt
4.01
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
An intense and emotional epistolary memoir by one of the world's top ice climbers, born at the conf… read more
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21. BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity
By: Ruth Whippman
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Combining painfully honest memoir, cultural analysis, and reporting, BoyMom is a humorous and heart… read more
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