The School for Good Mothers Readalikes

Created on April 19, 2022, 1:51 pm

Last Updated March 19, 2024, 3:31 pm

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If you want more dystopian futures with a complex mother (or soon to be mother, in this case) at the center of it all, try this.
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3) Madam
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While this may not be a school for bad mothers, it is a boarding school that also functions through control and "tradition".
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Like "The School for Good Mothers", this book also explores gender and motherhood in an environment where men police women's bodies.
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Not a dystopian, but the reality of the 1960s when young pregnant women's bodies and choices were not their own.
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These stories grapple with racism and sexism and feature women that are "defined and confined by and reliant on motherhood"(Booklist).
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