Motherhood Studies

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    • How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving
    • By: Caitlyn Collins
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and stress is constant....

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    • A Study
    • By: Orna Donath
    • Narrated by: Mandy Kaplan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 239 ratings
    • Women who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in life, yet we rarely talk about the possibility that the opposite might also be true - that women who have children might regret it. Drawing on years of research....

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    • Curating Contentment, Savoring Slow, and Making Room for What Matters Most
    • By: Emily Eusanio
    • Narrated by: Amy Tallmadge
    • Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • In A Simpler Motherhood, Emily's on a mission to remove stress from the lives of moms and busy families seeking less stuff and more joy in their daily life....

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    • Facing and Finding Yourself
    • By: Lisa Marchiano
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • In Motherhood, Marchiano draws from a deep well of Jungian analysis and symbolic research to present a collection of fairytales, myths, and fables that evoke the spiritual arc of raising a child from infancy through adulthood....

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    • By: Kathy McReynolds
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • This is the story of one of Church history's most revered women, the godly mother of John and Charles Wesley....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Susan Straight
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women....

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    • The Unsustainability of American Motherhood
    • By: Jessica Grose
    • Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • In this timely and necessary book, New York Times opinion writer Jessica Grose dismantles two hundred years of unrealistic parenting expectations and empowers today’s mothers to make choices that actually serve themselves, their children, and their communities....

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    • A Parent's Guide to Bringing Up Happy Sons in a World Filled with Toxic Masculinity
    • By: Aaron Gouveia
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • From Aaron Gouveia, who gained viral fame after tweeting his support for his son's painted fingernails (and who knows toxic masculinity very well), learn practical and actionable tips....

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    • On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
    • By: Lucy Jones
    • Narrated by: Lucy Jones
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • In this important and ground-breaking, deeply personal investigation, Jones writes of the emerging concept of “matrescence”—the wholeness of becoming a mother....

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    • Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
    • By: Julie Phillips
    • Narrated by: Marnye Young
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own," but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and creativity converge....

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    • By: Amy Chua
    • Narrated by: Amy Chua
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,626 ratings
    • At once provocative and laugh-out-loud funny, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother ignited a global parenting debate with its story of one mother’s journey in strict parenting....

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    • Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife
    • By: Caitlin Flanagan
    • Narrated by: Julia Fletcher
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • It's not news that women work, have families, and are conflicted about it....

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    • The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs
    • By: Marcia C. Inhorn
    • Narrated by: Elisabeth Ashby
    • Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Why are women freezing their eggs in record numbers? Motherhood on Ice explores this question by drawing on the stories of women who pursued fertility preservation technology....

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    • The Power of Connection to Build Good Men
    • By: Michael C. Reichert
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Michael C. Reichert draws on his 30 years of experience researching the process by which boys become men to provide a road map for parents and educators who hope to help the boys they love and care about grow into strong, emotionally intelligent, and compassionate men....

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    • A Memoir of Family and Transformation
    • By: Jodie Patterson
    • Narrated by: Jodie Patterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 127 ratings
    • Inspired by her transgender son, activist Jodie Patterson explores identity, gender, race, and authenticity to tell the real-life story of a family’s history and transformation....

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    • Dates, Doubts, and the Mother of All Decisions
    • By: Nell Frizzell
    • Narrated by: Nell Frizzell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • There is a period of profound change that many women face, often in their late 20s to early 40s, that does not yet have a name. Nell Frizzell is calling this period of flux “the panic years", and it is often marked by a preoccupation with the question of whether one should have a baby....

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    • The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood
    • By: Minna Dubin
    • Narrated by: Minna Dubin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Mom Rage is a frank feminist examination of the hidden crisis of rage facing American mothers—and how we can fix it....

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    • On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood
    • By: Lucy Jones
    • Narrated by: Lucy Jones
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • During pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood, women undergo a far-reaching physiological, psychological and social metamorphosis....

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    • Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
    • By: Paul Tough
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs. But in How Children Succeed, Paul Tough argues that the qualities that matter most have more to do with character....

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