Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
The transformation of becoming a mother is as large as adolescence, and has been studied a small fraction as much. A word for the passage.
Jones braids her own experience of becoming a mother with the neuroscience, endocrinology and ecology of it, arguing that the transformation is as significant as adolescence and has been studied a fraction as much. The word in the title names a passage that medicine has largely declined to describe at all.
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English journalist Lucy Jones takes up these questions in Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood (public library), braiding together her own experience of originating new life, some revelatory scientific studies that undermine our basic assumptions about personhood, and some astonishing counterpoints to the illusion of individuality in the nonhuman world.
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