(M)otherhood

On the choices of being a woman

(M)otherhood
Pragya Agarwal
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Hardback
h220 x 144mm - 384pg
3 Jun 2021 UK
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9781838853167
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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-East 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.
Absolutely 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 Brilliant, brave, beautiful . . . such an inspiring book -- ELIF SHAFAK Praise for Sway: Agarwal' s diagnosis of the political harms of bias ispassionate and urgent * * Guardian, Book of the Week * * An important look at one of the issues facing Western society today. This book exposes the insidiousness of unconscious bias and offers us a way to change the way we think that is practical, useful, readable and essential for the times we are living in. You need to read this book and think about the way you live and how you view others -- NIKESH SHUKLA Anexhaustive, brilliantly researched survey of bias and how it seeps so easily into our everyday thoughts and actions, from gender essentialism to casual racism. Calmly and without polemic, Agarwal explains why we all need to work harder to avoid lazy prejudice and simplistic narratives if we are to build a fairer society. An eye-opening book that I hope will be widely read -- ANGELA SAINI Indispensable . . . A book that is challenging, fascinating and useful, and if we take notice,a book that could make us better people -- ROBIN INCE
Dr Pragya Agarwal is a behavioural and data scientist. After gaining her PhD from the University of Nottingham, she was a senior academic in US and UK universities for over twelve years. As well as numerous research papers, she is the author of Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias and Wish We Knew What to Say: Talking with Children about Race. Sway was picked as a ' best science book of 2020' , Guardian Book of the Week and was shortlisted for the Transmission Prize. A passionate campaigner for racial and gender equality, Pragya is a two-time TEDx speaker, a TEDx Women organiser and the founder of a research think-tank ' The 50 Percent Project' . As a freelance journalist, she writes regularly for the Guardian, Prospect, Forbes, Huffington Post, BBC Science Focus and New Scientist among others. She has also written for AEON, Scientific American and the Wellcome Trust. @DrPragyaAgarwal | drpragyaagarwal. com
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781838853167
Published: 3 Jun 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Canongate Books
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 220mm
Width: 144mm
Pages: 384

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