MotherhoodBooks

Inspired by a true story, this Goncourt Prize-winning novel tells a chilling tale about the relationship between a 'perfect nanny' and her employer family. Slimani explores boundaries of class, race, and motherhood with sharp, cold prose, revealing deep societal rifts hidden beneath urban life's calm surface.

Nancy Chodorow's 1978 classic feminist work uses psychoanalytic and sociological theory to explain why women become mothers and how this gender division is psychologically reproduced.

In this seminal feminist work, Adrienne Rich explores the complex and often fraught relationship between mothers and daughters, distinguishing between motherhood as a personal experience and as a political institution forced upon women.

Adrienne Rich's 1976 classic feminist work deeply analyzes how motherhood as an institution is shaped and controlled by patriarchy while exploring the liberating potential inherent in the experience of mothering itself.