Broadly Conceived Reading & Recommendations (38 books)

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A list of past readings from Broadly Conceived meetings, including recommendations and sources discussed by our network members.

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1	Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 10,742 ratings score: 197, and 2 people voted	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
2	The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 4.06 avg rating — 380,444 ratings score: 184, and 2 people voted	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
3	The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth 4.20 avg rating — 80,551 ratings score: 177, and 2 people voted	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
4	Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisley (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 9,901 ratings score: 169, and 2 people voted	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
5	The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson 4.01 avg rating — 57,944 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	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
6	Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness by Catherine Cho (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 4,945 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	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
7	Motherhood by Sheila Heti (Goodreads Author) 3.63 avg rating — 21,917 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	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
8	Girls on the Verge by Sharon Biggs Waller (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 3,237 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	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
9	The Motherhood Penalty by Joeli Brearley 4.45 avg rating — 427 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	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
10	Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights by Samantha Pinto 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	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
11	The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts 3.49 avg rating — 1,674 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	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
12	What Have I Done?: Motherhood, Mental Illness & Me by Laura Dockrill 4.48 avg rating — 898 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	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
13	Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family by Sophie Lewis 3.76 avg rating — 721 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	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
14	Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters 3.91 avg rating — 95,296 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	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
15	Scholastic Affect: Gender, Maternity and the History of Emotions by Clare Monagle 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	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
16	Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman 4.29 avg rating — 2,730 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	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
17	Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi 3.48 avg rating — 32,220 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	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
18	The Panic Years: Dates, Doubts, and the Mother of All Decisions by Nell Frizzell 3.50 avg rating — 7,510 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	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
19	Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich 4.24 avg rating — 2,918 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	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
20	Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty by Jacqueline Rose 3.80 avg rating — 685 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	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
21	Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens 4.14 avg rating — 2,696 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	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
22	A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother by Rachel Cusk 3.93 avg rating — 8,038 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	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
23	Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story by Leah Hazard 4.16 avg rating — 3,632 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	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
24	Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began by Leah Hazard 4.09 avg rating — 2,260 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	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
25	Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel (Goodreads Author) 3.71 avg rating — 35,999 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	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
26	Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression by Teresa Wong (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 1,559 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	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
27	I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement by Jessica Zucker 4.50 avg rating — 979 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	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
28	After the Storm: Postnatal Depression and the Utter Weirdness of New Motherhood by Emma Jane Unsworth 4.37 avg rating — 526 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	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
29	No Choice: The Destruction of Roe v. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental American Right by Becca Andrews (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 367 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	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
30	Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression by Brooke Shields 3.77 avg rating — 4,293 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	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
31	Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth by Claire Horn 3.95 avg rating — 85 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	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
32	The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities by Anne Whitehead (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	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
33	Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn 4.11 avg rating — 11,421 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	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
34	Birth Notes: A Memoir of Recovery by Jessica Cornwell 4.47 avg rating — 68 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	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
35	Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History by Sarah Knott 3.80 avg rating — 417 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	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
36	Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know by Emily Oster 4.28 avg rating — 58,599 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	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
37	Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within by Elif Shafak (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 16,772 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	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
38	And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready by Meaghan O'Connell (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 7,377 ratings score: 63, and 1 person voted	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