"Postpartum depression and mental illness were long considered unfit for the public, psychological, or political discussion. Women were typically told their "baby blues" weren't important-or that they were failing as mothers. As Rachel Louise Moran shows, bringing these serious and common challenges into the open didn't just happen. It took activists, medical professionals, and countless everyday mothers to speak the unspeakable: motherhood is hard, and its burdens are often both heavy and unfair. Moran's groundbreaking work situates the changing cultural understanding of postpartum within larger women's health movements in America--a discussion that has constantly shifted amid the country's broader cultural and political transformations"-- Provided by publisher.