The Motherload: Episodes from the Brink of Motherhood
‘You may think I’m being melodramatic but ask any mother what choices she would make if she had complete freedom, and I can guarantee you that her…
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Joeli Brearley • The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
I know, too, that motherhood can bring a sort of violent, overwhelming love that feels like being encased in metal and dropped into a deep silent sea. This mother love can feel as raw and rare as cutting through the soft dark crimson of uncooked liver, and as unsettling as that, too.
Clover Stroud • My Wild and Sleepless Nights: The brave, raw Sunday Times bestselling memoir
Mothers, often caricatured, come off differently in such tropes. From Portnoy’s Complaint to Lady Bird, from Everybody Loves Raymond to Gilmore Girls, the mother must be overcome because her suffocating embrace is the means of her manipulation. Her presence swells and overwhelms and inhales all the oxygen an independent self needs to breathe. She d
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
There is a biological underpinning to these mood swings, but new mothers are also under tremendous pressure to be happy
Angela Garbes • Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
One horror of motherhood lies in the moments when she can see both the exquisiteness of her child and his utter inconsequence to others.