From the Motherhood Canon
❥ Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution,
Adrienne Rich, 1976
❥ The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and
Human Malaise, Dorothy Dinnerstein, 1975
❥ The Mother Knot, Jane Lazarre, 1976
❥ Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year,
Anne Lamott, 1993
❥ A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother, Rachel Cusk, 2001
❥ The Days of Abandonment: A Novel, Elena Ferrante, 2002
❥ An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A
Memoir, Elizabeth McCracken, 2008
❥ Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor
Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace, Ayelet
Waldman, 2009
❥ After Birth: A Novel, Elisa Albert, 2015
❥ The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson, 2015
❥ Little Labors, Rivka Galchen, 2016
❥ The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood,
Belle Boggs, 2016
❥ What We Lose: A Novel, Zinzi Clemons, 2017
❥ Body Full of Stars: Female Rage And My Passage Into
Motherhood, Molly Caro May, 2017
❥ And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I
Was Ready, Meaghan O’Connell, 2018
❥ Things That Helped: On Postpartum Depression, Jessica
Friedman, 2018
❥ Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty, Jacqueline Rose,
2018
❥ Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and
Culture of Pregnancy, Angela Garbes, 2018