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"Maternal ambivalence" as a book category gathers fiction, memoir, essays and poetry that probe the conflicted, often contradictory emotions surrounding motherhood—love and devotion alongside frustration, guilt, longing, anger, relief or indifference. These works unpack cultural myths and pressures about maternal instinct and self-sacrifice, interrogate identity and freedom after childbirth (or in its absence), and explore complicated relationships between mothers, children, partners and wider family across varied genres and tones (wry, raw, lyrical, darkly comic). Rather than casting mothers as uniformly saintly or monstrous, the category foregrounds nuance, moral complexity and the psychological realism of everyday decisions: adoption, infertility, postpartum mental health, career vs. caregiving, aging and intergenerational duty. Readers choose it to find honest, empathetic portrayals that validate mixed feelings and illuminate how personal history and social expectation shape maternal experience.

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