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Professor Pamela Fox comments on the Danté Stewart's piece in The Washington Post and the distinct task of Black parents to teach their...

As I Lay Dying presents complicated relationships to maternal identity. Here are some suggestions for sparking discussion.

"Moms for Liberty" is an organization motivated by opposition to CRT. I look at this organization and whose children's interests they uphold

I examine how "Mary Bly" by James Wright and "Summer in the suburbs: 6:00 A.M." by Jane Kenyon interact with the male gaze and the maternal.

In a novel heralded for its anti-conformism, Kerouac’s radicality is limited by his conservatism when it comes to conceptions of gender.

Maternal theorist Patricia Hill Collins consistently denies the artificial line that patriarchy has drawn between work and motherhood.

In a piece for Slate, Abby Palko contrasts her own experience as a working mother at Notre Dame with that of Justice Barrett.

Here are some suggestions if you're looking to teach The Great Gatsby through a reproductive justice lens.

Here are some suggested discussion prompts if you're looking to examine Hemingway's representation of motherhood in A Farewell to Arms.

Reading Motherhood isn't just a website--it's also a course taught at Georgetown University by our two co-founders.

Reading Motherhood is also a course at Georgetown University. Here's our syllabus, including the titles of readings that guide our class.

Here are some recommendations for educators looking to bring resources about the movement for reproductive rights into their classes.

McClain's book may be eye-opening to some and relatable to others, but she models a timely rendering of "the personal is political."

The first time I taught this poem at Georgetown, most of the young men in the class were outraged.