Dr Pragya Agarwal is a behavioural and data scientist. After
gaining her PhD from the University of Nottingham, she was a senior
academic in US and UK universities for over twelve years. As well
as numerous research papers, she is the author of Sway: Unravelling
Unconscious Bias and Wish We Knew What to Say: Talking with
Children about Race. Sway was picked as a 'best science book of
2020', Guardian Book of the Week and was shortlisted for the
Transmission Prize. A passionate campaigner for racial and gender
equality, Pragya is a two-time TEDx speaker, a TEDx Women organiser
and the founder of a research think-tank 'The 50 Percent Project'.
As a freelance journalist, she writes regularly for the Guardian,
Prospect, Forbes, Huffington Post, BBC Science Focus and New
Scientist among others. She has also written for AEON, Scientific
American and the Wellcome Trust.
@DrPragyaAgarwal | drpragyaagarwal.com
Praise for (M)otherhood:
'An exhilarating, genre-defying read . . . seamlessly interwoven
with statistics, quotes and scientific evidence to clever narrative
effect . . . reminiscent of Olivia Laing's writing on loneliness or
the body . . . The whole thing adds up to the most thoughtful,
empathic and inspiring science of the self' - VIV GROSKOP
'Absolutely sensational. Revelatory and of its time, challenging
myths and ingrained perceptions. I could not put it down. Everyone
should read this' - MICHAEL CASHMAN, CBE, co-founder of
Stonewall
'Brilliant, brave, beautiful . . . such an inspiring book' - ELIF
SHAFAK
'Riveting. Agarwal writes with searing honesty and tenderness about
the joys and agonies of becoming a mother, of trying and failing to
conceive again, and then of pursuing a route to motherhood that's
widely seen as taboo . . . Agarwal writes beautifully about her own
complicated experience' - Guardian
'Intimate and insightful, Pragya Agarwal expands the meaning of the
word motherhood in this brilliant book. This is urgent, essential
reading for everyone' - AVNI DOSHI
'A wide-ranging, searingly honest and timely intervention into the
framing of a fundamental and fraught choice, as well as an
impassioned defence of ambivalence as part of the human condition'
- OLIVIA SUDJIC
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