(M)otherhood On the choices of being a woman
- 3 Jun 2021
- 9781838853167
- £16.99
- 384 pp
- 144×220mm
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In a few words
Part memoir and reflective analysis, Pragya Agarwal examines motherhood and fertility and how it shapes all our lives
In a few words
Part memoir and reflective analysis, Pragya Agarwal examines motherhood and fertility and how it shapes all our lives
In a few words
Part memoir and reflective analysis, Pragya Agarwal examines motherhood and fertility and how it shapes all our lives
In a few words
Part memoir and reflective analysis, Pragya Agarwal examines motherhood and fertility and how it shapes all our lives
An exhilarating, genre-defying read . . . seamlessly interwoven with statistics, quotes and scientific evidence to clever narrative effect . . . reminiscent of Olivia Laing’s writing on loneliness or the body . . . The whole thing adds up to the most thoughtful, empathic and inspiring science of the self
Viv Groskop
ObserverAbsolutely sensational. Revelatory and of its time, challenging myths and ingrained perceptions. I could not put it down. Everyone should read this
Michael Cashman, Cbe, Co-founder Of Stonewall
An exhilarating, genre-defying read . . . seamlessly interwoven with statistics, quotes and scientific evidence to clever narrative effect . . . reminiscent of Olivia Laing’s writing on loneliness or the body . . . The whole thing adds up to the most thoughtful, empathic and inspiring science of the self
Viv Groskop
ObserverAbsolutely sensational. Revelatory and of its time, challenging myths and ingrained perceptions. I could not put it down. Everyone should read this
Michael Cashman, Cbe, Co-founder Of Stonewall
An exhilarating, genre-defying read . . . seamlessly interwoven with statistics, quotes and scientific evidence to clever narrative effect . . . reminiscent of Olivia Laing’s writing on loneliness or the body . . . The whole thing adds up to the most thoughtful, empathic and inspiring science of the self
Viv Groskop
ObserverAbsolutely sensational. Revelatory and of its time, challenging myths and ingrained perceptions. I could not put it down. Everyone should read this
Michael Cashman, Cbe, Co-founder Of Stonewall
An exhilarating, genre-defying read . . . seamlessly interwoven with statistics, quotes and scientific evidence to clever narrative effect . . . reminiscent of Olivia Laing’s writing on loneliness or the body . . . The whole thing adds up to the most thoughtful, empathic and inspiring science of the self
Viv Groskop
ObserverAbsolutely sensational. Revelatory and of its time, challenging myths and ingrained perceptions. I could not put it down. Everyone should read this
Michael Cashman, Cbe, Co-founder Of Stonewall
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‘An exhilarating, genre-defying read’ Observer, ‘Beautiful’ Elif Shafak, ‘Absolutely sensational’ Michael Cashman, CBE, ‘Powerful and compelling’ New Statesman‘, ‘Brilliant’ Caitlin Moran
In a world where women have more choices than ever, society nevertheless continues to exert the stigma and pressures of less enlightened times when it comes to having children. We define women by whether they embrace or reject motherhood; whether they can give birth or not.
Behavioural Scientist Pragya Agarwal uses her own varied experiences and choices as a woman of South Asian heritage to examine the broader societal, historical and scientific factors that drive how we think and talk about motherhood. She looks at how women’s bodies have been monitored and controlled through history, and how this shapes the political constructs of motherhood and womanhood now.
Extremely open in its honesty and meticulously researched, (M)otherhood probes themes of infertility, childbirth and reproductive justice, and makes a powerful and urgent argument for the need to tackle society’s obsession with women’s bodies and fertility.
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Extremely open in its honesty and meticulously researched, (M)otherhood probes themes of infertility, childbirth and reproductive justice, and makes a powerful and urgent argument for the need to tackle society’s obsession with women’s bodies and fertility.
More about
the book
Extremely open in its honesty and meticulously researched, (M)otherhood probes themes of infertility, childbirth and reproductive justice, and makes a powerful and urgent argument for the need to tackle society’s obsession with women’s bodies and fertility.
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‘An immensely powerful reflection on the ways motherhood has been politicised, fetishised and used to control and suppress women, narrated by the author’ Guardian, Audiobook of the Week
In a world where women have more choices than ever, society nevertheless continues to exert the stigma and pressures of less enlightened times when it comes to having children. We define women by whether they embrace or reject motherhood; whether they can give birth or not.
Behavioural Scientist Pragya Agarwal uses her own varied experiences and choices as a woman of South Asian heritage to examine the broader societal, historical and scientific factors that drive how we think and talk about motherhood. She looks at how women’s bodies have been monitored and controlled through history, and how this shapes the political constructs of motherhood and womanhood now.
Extremely open in its honesty and meticulously researched, (M)otherhood probes themes of infertility, childbirth and reproductive justice, and makes a powerful and urgent argument for the need to tackle society’s obsession with women’s bodies and fertility.
Brilliant, brave, beautiful . . . such an inspiring book
Elif Shafak
Riveting. Agarwal writes with searing honesty and tenderness about the joys and agonies of becoming a mother, of trying and failing to conceive again, and then of pursuing a route to motherhood that’s widely seen as taboo . . . Agarwal writes beautifully about her own complicated experience
Intimate and insightful, Pragya Agarwal expands the meaning of the word motherhood in this brilliant book. This is urgent, essential reading for everyone
Avni Doshi
A wide-ranging, searingly honest and timely intervention into the framing of a fundamental and fraught choice, as well as an impassioned defence of ambivalence as part of the human condition
Olivia Sudjic
Brilliant, brave, beautiful . . . such an inspiring book
Elif Shafak
Riveting. Agarwal writes with searing honesty and tenderness about the joys and agonies of becoming a mother, of trying and failing to conceive again, and then of pursuing a route to motherhood that’s widely seen as taboo . . . Agarwal writes beautifully about her own complicated experience
Intimate and insightful, Pragya Agarwal expands the meaning of the word motherhood in this brilliant book. This is urgent, essential reading for everyone
Avni Doshi
A wide-ranging, searingly honest and timely intervention into the framing of a fundamental and fraught choice, as well as an impassioned defence of ambivalence as part of the human condition
Olivia Sudjic
Brilliant, brave, beautiful . . . such an inspiring book
Elif Shafak
Riveting. Agarwal writes with searing honesty and tenderness about the joys and agonies of becoming a mother, of trying and failing to conceive again, and then of pursuing a route to motherhood that’s widely seen as taboo . . . Agarwal writes beautifully about her own complicated experience
Intimate and insightful, Pragya Agarwal expands the meaning of the word motherhood in this brilliant book. This is urgent, essential reading for everyone
Avni Doshi
A wide-ranging, searingly honest and timely intervention into the framing of a fundamental and fraught choice, as well as an impassioned defence of ambivalence as part of the human condition
Olivia Sudjic
Brilliant, brave, beautiful . . . such an inspiring book
Elif Shafak
Riveting. Agarwal writes with searing honesty and tenderness about the joys and agonies of becoming a mother, of trying and failing to conceive again, and then of pursuing a route to motherhood that’s widely seen as taboo . . . Agarwal writes beautifully about her own complicated experience
Intimate and insightful, Pragya Agarwal expands the meaning of the word motherhood in this brilliant book. This is urgent, essential reading for everyone
Avni Doshi
A wide-ranging, searingly honest and timely intervention into the framing of a fundamental and fraught choice, as well as an impassioned defence of ambivalence as part of the human condition
Olivia Sudjic