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There are a lot of books that include stories of creative mothers or are by creative mothers. Here are some of them.
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan Novels Book 3)
The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels Book 2)
Guidebook to Relative Strangers
Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
A Woman Is a Woman Until She Is a Mother
How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and Other Parents)
SORRY I GAVE BIRTH I DISAPPEARED BUT NOW I'M BACK
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood (Essais, 13)
Dept. of Speculation (Vintage Contemporaries)
To Write as if Already Dead (Rereadings)
I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton (American Music Series)
The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
I acknowledge that I live and work on unceded Lumbee, Skaruhreh/Tuscarora, Cheraw, Catawba, Saponi, Occaneechi, and Shakori land. I give respect and reverence to those who came before me. I thank Holisticism for the text of this land acknowledgement.
We must acknowledge that much of what we know of this country today, including its culture, economic growth, and development throughout history and across time, has been made possible by the labor of enslaved Africans and their ascendants who suffered the horror of the transatlantic trafficking of their people, chattel slavery, and Jim Crow. We are indebted to their labor and their sacrifice, and we must acknowledge the tremors of that violence throughout the generations and the resulting impact that can still be felt and witnessed today. I thank Dr. Terah ‘TJ’ Stewart for the text of this labor acknowledgement.