Motherhood
and work

• Motherhood. Feminism’s Unfinished Business. by Eliane Glaser. Harper Collins: 2022
• Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood. by Jessica Goose. Mariner Books, 2022
• Work Won’t Love You Back. by Sarah Jaffe. Verso: 2021
• Essential Labour. Mothering as Social Change. by Angela Garbes. Harper Wave: 2022
• Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family. by Sophie Lewis, Verso: 2020
• Regretting Motherhood: A Study by Orna Donath. North Atlantic Books: 2017
• Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines. Edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens & Mai’a Williams. PM: 2016
• Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution. by Adrienne Rich, 1976
• The Motherhood Penalty: How to Stop Motherhood Being the Kiss of Death for Your Career. by Joeli Brearley. Simon & Schuster: 2022
• Mama, PhD: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life. Rutgers University Press: 2008

Motherhood
in the arts

• How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and Other Parents). by Hettie Judah. Lund Humphries: 2022
• Feminist Art and the Maternal. by Andrea Liss. University of Minnesota Press: 2018
• The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art. Edited by Myrel Chernick & Jennie Klein. Demeter Press: 2011
• Why Call It Labour? On Motherhood and Art Work. Edited by Mai Abu ElDahab. Mophradat & Archive: 2020
• The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood and the Mind-Baby Problem. by Julie Phillips. Norton: 2022
• Radicalising Care: Feminist and Queer Activism in Curating. Edited by Elke Krasny Et al. Sternberg Press: 2021

Art in
motherhood

• Undo Motherhood. by Diana Karklin. Photography. Schilt: 2022
• Still Isolated Here. by Sophie Whetton. Photography & Poetry. Self published: 2022
• Custody of the Eyes. by Diamela Elite. Fiction. Sternberg: 2022
• How to Mend: Motherhood and its Ghosts. by Iman Mersal. Monograph. Kayla ta & Sternberg: 2022
• Womb Consciousness: Collective Compendium on the Work of Artist Doula Tabita Rezaire. Le presses du réel: 2022
• Motherhood. by Sheila Heti. Fiction. Vintage: 2019
• The Artists Way for Parents: Raising Creative Children by Julia Cameron and Emma Lively. Tarcher Perigee: 2014