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Amanda Montei

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Amanda Montei

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Amanda Montei holds a PhD in English literature from SUNY at Buffalo and an MFA in Writing from California Institute of the Arts. She is the author of Touched Out (Beacon Press), Two Memoirs (Jaded Ibis), and the chapbook The Failure Age (Bloof Books). She has written essays and criticism for Slate, Mother Tongue, Vox, HuffPost, Electric Literature, Believer, Rumpus, Ms. Magazine, American Book Review, and others. She lives in California.

Average rating: 4.18 · 425 ratings · 70 reviews · 4 distinct worksSimilar authors
Touched Out: Motherhood, Mi...

4.17 avg rating — 403 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions
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The Failure Age

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Dinner Poems

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4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013
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“both Wife and Mother are forms of work, not identity positions.”
Amanda Montei, Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control

“because women are pressured into marriage and motherhood from such a young age it can be hard to see the difference between what we long for and what we have been told will make us good.”
Amanda Montei, Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control

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