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Amanda Montei

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Born

Los Angeles, CA

Website

https://www.amandamontei.com/

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Memoir, Nonfiction

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November 2021

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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.

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	Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control 4.18 avg rating — 426 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Failure Age really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dinner Poems by Amanda Montei (Goodreads Author), Jon Rutzmoser (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two Memoirs: an Auto+Biography (Color Edition) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“both Wife and Mother are forms of work, not identity positions.”
― Amanda Montei, Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control

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“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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