Join us in person on the last Wednesday of every month to discuss a book of a different genre. This month's book gen re is Non-Fiction. In celebration of Women's History Month and women's hea lth\, this month's book selection is Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America \ ;by Rachel Louise Moran. \;
\nN ew motherhood is often seen as a joyful moment in a woman's life\; for som e women\, it is also their lowest moment. For much of the twentieth centur y\, popular and medical voices blamed women who had emotional and mental d istress after childbirth for their own suffering. By the end of the centur y\, though\, women with postpartum mental illnesses sought to take \;c harge of this narrative. In Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression i n America\, Rachel Louise Moran explores the history of the naming an d mainstreaming of postpartum depression. Coalitions of maverick psychiatr ists\, psychologists\, and women who themselves had survived substantial p ostpartum distress fought to legitimize and normalize women's experiences. They argued that postpartum depression is an objective and real illness a nd fought to avoid it being politicized alongside other fraught medical an d political battles over women's health. Based on insightful oral historie s and in-depth archival research\, Blue reveals a secret history of Americ an motherhood\, women's political activism\, and the rise of postpartum de pression advocacy amid an often-censorious conservative culture. By breaki ng new ground with the first book-length history of postpartum mental illn ess in the twentieth century\, Moran brings mothers' battles with postpart um depression out of the shadows and into the light.
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