Alex Bollen

Researcher. Author of MOTHERDOM: BREAKING FREE FROM BAD SCIENCE & GOOD MOTHER MYTHS. Out now from @VersoBooks. Repped by @eleanorbirne

[Alex Bollen @alexbollen]

Today is publication day. #Motherdom officially enters the world. @VersoBooks

My book takes on the Good Mother myths which shame women and divert our attention away from the relationships and resources children need to flourish. https://t.co/BuGsZyg25j

[Alex Bollen @alexbollen]

Our books share much common ground but each has a distinct focus. #Motherdom exposes how mothers today are set up to fail when it comes to birth, feeding and child development. @nancy_reddy @HZeavin @VersoBooks

[Alex Bollen @alexbollen]

Thrilled that #Motherdom has been reviewed in @washingtonpost along with brilliant books by @nancy_reddy and @HZeavin also taking on the pseudoscience and unforgiving cultural norms afflicting mothers @VersoBooks

[Alex Bollen @alexbollen]

So pleased to be doing a joint event with the brilliant @helen_charman on THE POLITICS OF MOTHERHOOD at @HousmansBooks on Wednesday 21 May, 7pm. @VersoBooks
https://t.co/K1ee5bBRn3

[Alex Bollen @alexbollen]

I am doing a talk about my book MOTHERDOM at Chelsea Library on the King’s Road on Saturday 17 May, 3-4.30pm. Free entry, tickets available from Eventbrite @RBKClibraries. https://t.co/3mCz7PZxq1

[Alex Bollen @alexbollen]

@BirthTrauma Thank you!

[Alex Bollen @alexbollen]

Want to hear about the politics & history of mother blaming? Come to @blackwelloxford
on Thursday 10 April at 5.30pm - I'll be talking about my book #Motherdom and why Good Mother myths harm all women @VersoBooks
Tix available here: https://t.co/BA9VSuKsLN

[Alex Bollen @alexbollen]

Why whatever mothers do for their children it is never enough - an excerpt from my book #Motherdom published by @VersoBooks

[Literary Hub @lithub]

.@alexbollen explores early childhood brain development and why restrictive moralizing hurts parents.”
https://t.co/JFURdW29Sg

[Alex Bollen @alexbollen]

Thank you to @HuffPostUK and Natasha Hinde for this great piece on four of the very worst Good Mother myths #Motherdom https://t.co/YEjHlKvqqC

[Blackwell's, Oxford’s Bookshop @blackwelloxford]

Our 'Women on Women' series of events continues this month and culminates will a very special event at the Sheldonian Theatre on 15th June.

Featuring @AyoCaesar @alexbollen @helen__jukes @WriterHannahBT @SSteinLubrano @EverydaySexism and more @blackwellbooks

[Alex Bollen @alexbollen]

@patricialondon @VersoBooks @tcmurray Thank you so much!!

[Alex Bollen @alexbollen]

Today is publication day. #Motherdom officially enters the world. @VersoBooks

My book takes on the Good Mother myths which shame women and divert our attention away from the relationships and resources children need to flourish. https://t.co/BuGsZyg25j

[Alex Bollen @alexbollen]

@leemcewan @VersoBooks Thanks Lee! It's great to hear of sightings! Hope all is well

[Alex Bollen @alexbollen]

My Substack piece in honour of #IWD on how rigid gender roles are being reasserted and why Good Mother myths are damaging for all women. https://t.co/H9SlTDcc70

[Alex Bollen @alexbollen]

Excellent piece on how Western brain building narratives are being exported across the world

[Gabriel Scheidecker @G_Scheidecker]

Here is our new essay on early childhood development interventions. https://t.co/0enOTPLfoi

[Alex Bollen @alexbollen]

Thank you! My book #Motherdom is indebted to the pioneering scholarship of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies

[Parenting studies @CPCS_UniKent]

Congrats to @alexbollen for her new book 'Motherdom'

Review here:
How neuroscience and bad studies have fuelled intensive parenting
https://t.co/aG0Gy3ldYD

[Alex Bollen @alexbollen]

Cracking review of #Motherdom from @newscientist and @PennySarchet which discusses how parenting prescriptions heap pressure on individual mothers and provide governments with easy answers for “big problems like poverty and inequality.” @VersoBooks

https://t.co/X74xQG1ZmE

[Alex Bollen @alexbollen]

Thank you, it was an honour to have you there! Your work on birth trauma is so important (and sadly so needed)

[BirthTrauma @BirthTrauma]

It was an honour to attend the launch of @alexbollen's book Motherdom yesterday - it does a brilliant job of dissecting some of the dubious research relating to pregnancy and motherhood. https://t.co/SAIfUeil3H

[Alex Bollen @alexbollen]

My Substack piece on why I wrote #Motherdom
@VersoBooks
https://t.co/sf10vwxp4M

[Alex Bollen @alexbollen]

SO excited by the first sighting of #Motherdom in the wild. Thank you @HelenWilson_CX for the spot @Waterstones

[Alex Bollen @alexbollen]

Can't wait to visit @Books_n_friends (the finest bookshop in Manchester!) on Tue 11 March. I'll be talking about my new book MOTHERDOM and why Good Mother myths make motherhood so much harder than it needs to be.
Tix here: https://t.co/FoVvzpPd0q

[House of Books and Friends @Books_n_friends]

Early gift for mothers day? What about a deep dive into the politics, science, and the state of modern motherhood? Alex Bollen's gripping new text is "the book that all of us, mothers and motherhood researchers alike, have been waiting for!"

Link: https://t.co/UxQcqe8mnq