Join us on Tuesday, September 12th at 7pm PT when Amanda Montei celebrates the release of her book, Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control, with Tracy Clark-Flory at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below
https://youtube.com/live/KKII4__SQTw
Praise for Touched Out
"How much of the corporeal work of American mothering originates in us, and how much is a result of a culture that controls female bodies and conditions us to be sacrificial and passive, drained but venerated vessels of maternal love? The question is as monumental as it is unsettling. With both scholarly prowess and intimate storytelling--and with a desirous brain and body--Amanda Montei explores this labyrinthine terrain to move caregivers and children closer to joy, autonomy, and freedom."--Angela Garbes, author of Essential Labor and Like a Mother
"Few desires or pleasures escape the devastating forces of patriarchy and profit, and Montei deftly and unflinchingly traces the scars left by these forces in her own life and the lives of others. Never betraying love's possibilities in her critique of love's economic and social perils, Montei's meditation on motherhood is a new classic."--Anne Boyer, author of The Undying
"Montei is leading the charge in a new wave of feminism--a must-read!"--Eve Rodsky, author of Fair Play
About Touched Out
In this stunning blend of memoir, theory, and cultural criticism, a new mother examines the intersection between misogyny and motherhood, considering how caregivers can take back their bodies and pass on a language of consent to their children.
Motherhood and the culture of misogyny in America are not often explored in tandem. The connection is women's bodies.
When Amanda Montei became a parent, she struggled with the physicality of caring for children, but even more with the growing lack of autonomy she felt in her personal and professional life. The conditions of modern American parenthood--the lack of paid leave and affordable childcare, the isolation and alienation, the distribution of labor in her home, and the implicit demands of marriage--were not what she had expected.
After #MeToo, however, she began to see a connection between how women were feeling in motherhood and the larger culture of assault in which she had grown up. In American society, women are expected to prioritize their children, often by pushing their bodies to the limit and ignoring their own desires and needs. As she struggled to adjust to the new demands on her body, this stirred memories of being used, violated, and seen by men. She had the desperate urge to finally say no, though she didn't know how, or to whom she might say it.
Written with the intellectual and emotional precision of writers like Roxane Gay and Leslie Jamison, and drawing on classic feminist thinkers such as bell hooks, Silvia Federici, and Adrienne Rich, as well as on popular culture from The Bachelor to Look Who's Talking, Montei draws connections between caregiving, consent, reproductive control, and the sacrifices women are expected to make throughout their lives. Exploring the stories we tell about psychology, childbirth, sexuality, the family, the overwhelm mothers feel trying to be "good," and the tender bonds that form between parent and child, Touched Out delivers a powerful critique of American rape culture and its continuation in the institution of motherhood, and considers what it really means to care in America.
About Amanda Montei
Amanda Montei has a PhD in English literature from SUNY at Buffalo and an MFA in Writing from California Institute of the Arts. She is also the author of Two Memoirs (Jaded Ibis). Her essays and criticism have appeared at Slate, Mother Tongue, Vox, HuffPost, Electric Literature, The Believer, The Rumpus, Ms. Magazine blog, American Book Review, and others. She teaches writing and lives in California with her husband and two children.
About Tracy Clark-Flory
Tracy Clark-Flory is a journalist and author of the memoir Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire, an NPR best book of the year. New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Traister calls Want Me "intimate, challenging, and so very smart... a gift." She's written for Cosmopolitan, Elle, Esquire, Jezebel, Marie Claire, Salon, Glamour, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Wired, Women's Health, and many others. Currently, she writes a weekly newsletter on sex, feminism, motherhood, and pop culture.
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Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below
https://youtube.com/live/KKII4__SQTw
Praise for Touched Out
"How much of the corporeal work of American mothering originates in us, and how much is a result of a culture that controls female bodies and conditions us to be sacrificial and passive, drained but venerated vessels of maternal love? The question is as monumental as it is unsettling. With both scholarly prowess and intimate storytelling--and with a desirous brain and body--Amanda Montei explores this labyrinthine terrain to move caregivers and children closer to joy, autonomy, and freedom."--Angela Garbes, author of Essential Labor and Like a Mother
"Few desires or pleasures escape the devastating forces of patriarchy and profit, and Montei deftly and unflinchingly traces the scars left by these forces in her own life and the lives of others. Never betraying love's possibilities in her critique of love's economic and social perils, Montei's meditation on motherhood is a new classic."--Anne Boyer, author of The Undying
"Montei is leading the charge in a new wave of feminism--a must-read!"--Eve Rodsky, author of Fair Play
About Touched Out
In this stunning blend of memoir, theory, and cultural criticism, a new mother examines the intersection between misogyny and motherhood, considering how caregivers can take back their bodies and pass on a language of consent to their children.
Motherhood and the culture of misogyny in America are not often explored in tandem. The connection is women's bodies.
When Amanda Montei became a parent, she struggled with the physicality of caring for children, but even more with the growing lack of autonomy she felt in her personal and professional life. The conditions of modern American parenthood--the lack of paid leave and affordable childcare, the isolation and alienation, the distribution of labor in her home, and the implicit demands of marriage--were not what she had expected.
After #MeToo, however, she began to see a connection between how women were feeling in motherhood and the larger culture of assault in which she had grown up. In American society, women are expected to prioritize their children, often by pushing their bodies to the limit and ignoring their own desires and needs. As she struggled to adjust to the new demands on her body, this stirred memories of being used, violated, and seen by men. She had the desperate urge to finally say no, though she didn't know how, or to whom she might say it.
Written with the intellectual and emotional precision of writers like Roxane Gay and Leslie Jamison, and drawing on classic feminist thinkers such as bell hooks, Silvia Federici, and Adrienne Rich, as well as on popular culture from The Bachelor to Look Who's Talking, Montei draws connections between caregiving, consent, reproductive control, and the sacrifices women are expected to make throughout their lives. Exploring the stories we tell about psychology, childbirth, sexuality, the family, the overwhelm mothers feel trying to be "good," and the tender bonds that form between parent and child, Touched Out delivers a powerful critique of American rape culture and its continuation in the institution of motherhood, and considers what it really means to care in America.
About Amanda Montei
Amanda Montei has a PhD in English literature from SUNY at Buffalo and an MFA in Writing from California Institute of the Arts. She is also the author of Two Memoirs (Jaded Ibis). Her essays and criticism have appeared at Slate, Mother Tongue, Vox, HuffPost, Electric Literature, The Believer, The Rumpus, Ms. Magazine blog, American Book Review, and others. She teaches writing and lives in California with her husband and two children.
About Tracy Clark-Flory
Tracy Clark-Flory is a journalist and author of the memoir Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire, an NPR best book of the year. New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Traister calls Want Me "intimate, challenging, and so very smart... a gift." She's written for Cosmopolitan, Elle, Esquire, Jezebel, Marie Claire, Salon, Glamour, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Wired, Women's Health, and many others. Currently, she writes a weekly newsletter on sex, feminism, motherhood, and pop culture.
Join us on Tuesday, September 12th at 7pm PT when Amanda Montei celebrates the release of her book, Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control, with Tracy Clark-Flory at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below
https://youtube.com/live/KKII4__SQTw
Praise for Touched Out
"How much of the corporeal work of American mothering originates in us, and how much is a result of a culture that controls female bodies and conditions us to be sacrificial and passive, drained but venerated vessels of maternal love? The question is as monumental as it is unsettling. With both scholarly prowess and intimate storytelling--and with a desirous brain and body--Amanda Montei explores this labyrinthine terrain to move caregivers and children closer to joy, autonomy, and freedom."--Angela Garbes, author of Essential Labor and Like a Mother
"Few desires or pleasures escape the devastating forces of patriarchy and profit, and Montei deftly and unflinchingly traces the scars left by these forces in her own life and the lives of others. Never betraying love's possibilities in her critique of love's economic and social perils, Montei's meditation on motherhood is a new classic."--Anne Boyer, author of The Undying
"Montei is leading the charge in a new wave of feminism--a must-read!"--Eve Rodsky, author of Fair Play
About Touched Out
In this stunning blend of memoir, theory, and cultural criticism, a new mother examines the intersection between misogyny and motherhood, considering how caregivers can take back their bodies and pass on a language of consent to their children.
Motherhood and the culture of misogyny in America are not often explored in tandem. The connection is women's bodies.
When Amanda Montei became a parent, she struggled with the physicality of caring for children, but even more with the growing lack of autonomy she felt in her personal and professional life. The conditions of modern American parenthood--the lack of paid leave and affordable childcare, the isolation and alienation, the distribution of labor in her home, and the implicit demands of marriage--were not what she had expected.
After #MeToo, however, she began to see a connection between how women were feeling in motherhood and the larger culture of assault in which she had grown up. In American society, women are expected to prioritize their children, often by pushing their bodies to the limit and ignoring their own desires and needs. As she struggled to adjust to the new demands on her body, this stirred memories of being used, violated, and seen by men. She had the desperate urge to finally say no, though she didn't know how, or to whom she might say it.
Written with the intellectual and emotional precision of writers like Roxane Gay and Leslie Jamison, and drawing on classic feminist thinkers such as bell hooks, Silvia Federici, and Adrienne Rich, as well as on popular culture from The Bachelor to Look Who's Talking, Montei draws connections between caregiving, consent, reproductive control, and the sacrifices women are expected to make throughout their lives. Exploring the stories we tell about psychology, childbirth, sexuality, the family, the overwhelm mothers feel trying to be "good," and the tender bonds that form between parent and child, Touched Out delivers a powerful critique of American rape culture and its continuation in the institution of motherhood, and considers what it really means to care in America.
About Amanda Montei
Amanda Montei has a PhD in English literature from SUNY at Buffalo and an MFA in Writing from California Institute of the Arts. She is also the author of Two Memoirs (Jaded Ibis). Her essays and criticism have appeared at Slate, Mother Tongue, Vox, HuffPost, Electric Literature, The Believer, The Rumpus, Ms. Magazine blog, American Book Review, and others. She teaches writing and lives in California with her husband and two children.
About Tracy Clark-Flory
Tracy Clark-Flory is a journalist and author of the memoir Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire, an NPR best book of the year. New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Traister calls Want Me "intimate, challenging, and so very smart... a gift." She's written for Cosmopolitan, Elle, Esquire, Jezebel, Marie Claire, Salon, Glamour, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Wired, Women's Health, and many others. Currently, she writes a weekly newsletter on sex, feminism, motherhood, and pop culture.
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Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below
https://youtube.com/live/KKII4__SQTw
Praise for Touched Out
"How much of the corporeal work of American mothering originates in us, and how much is a result of a culture that controls female bodies and conditions us to be sacrificial and passive, drained but venerated vessels of maternal love? The question is as monumental as it is unsettling. With both scholarly prowess and intimate storytelling--and with a desirous brain and body--Amanda Montei explores this labyrinthine terrain to move caregivers and children closer to joy, autonomy, and freedom."--Angela Garbes, author of Essential Labor and Like a Mother
"Few desires or pleasures escape the devastating forces of patriarchy and profit, and Montei deftly and unflinchingly traces the scars left by these forces in her own life and the lives of others. Never betraying love's possibilities in her critique of love's economic and social perils, Montei's meditation on motherhood is a new classic."--Anne Boyer, author of The Undying
"Montei is leading the charge in a new wave of feminism--a must-read!"--Eve Rodsky, author of Fair Play
About Touched Out
In this stunning blend of memoir, theory, and cultural criticism, a new mother examines the intersection between misogyny and motherhood, considering how caregivers can take back their bodies and pass on a language of consent to their children.
Motherhood and the culture of misogyny in America are not often explored in tandem. The connection is women's bodies.
When Amanda Montei became a parent, she struggled with the physicality of caring for children, but even more with the growing lack of autonomy she felt in her personal and professional life. The conditions of modern American parenthood--the lack of paid leave and affordable childcare, the isolation and alienation, the distribution of labor in her home, and the implicit demands of marriage--were not what she had expected.
After #MeToo, however, she began to see a connection between how women were feeling in motherhood and the larger culture of assault in which she had grown up. In American society, women are expected to prioritize their children, often by pushing their bodies to the limit and ignoring their own desires and needs. As she struggled to adjust to the new demands on her body, this stirred memories of being used, violated, and seen by men. She had the desperate urge to finally say no, though she didn't know how, or to whom she might say it.
Written with the intellectual and emotional precision of writers like Roxane Gay and Leslie Jamison, and drawing on classic feminist thinkers such as bell hooks, Silvia Federici, and Adrienne Rich, as well as on popular culture from The Bachelor to Look Who's Talking, Montei draws connections between caregiving, consent, reproductive control, and the sacrifices women are expected to make throughout their lives. Exploring the stories we tell about psychology, childbirth, sexuality, the family, the overwhelm mothers feel trying to be "good," and the tender bonds that form between parent and child, Touched Out delivers a powerful critique of American rape culture and its continuation in the institution of motherhood, and considers what it really means to care in America.
About Amanda Montei
Amanda Montei has a PhD in English literature from SUNY at Buffalo and an MFA in Writing from California Institute of the Arts. She is also the author of Two Memoirs (Jaded Ibis). Her essays and criticism have appeared at Slate, Mother Tongue, Vox, HuffPost, Electric Literature, The Believer, The Rumpus, Ms. Magazine blog, American Book Review, and others. She teaches writing and lives in California with her husband and two children.
About Tracy Clark-Flory
Tracy Clark-Flory is a journalist and author of the memoir Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire, an NPR best book of the year. New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Traister calls Want Me "intimate, challenging, and so very smart... a gift." She's written for Cosmopolitan, Elle, Esquire, Jezebel, Marie Claire, Salon, Glamour, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Wired, Women's Health, and many others. Currently, she writes a weekly newsletter on sex, feminism, motherhood, and pop culture.
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