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Matrescence - On Pregnancy, Childbirth, And Motherhood (Hardcover) Loot Price: R579
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Matrescence - On Pregnancy, Childbirth, And Motherhood (Hardcover): Lucy Jones

Matrescence - On Pregnancy, Childbirth, And Motherhood (Hardcover)

Lucy Jones

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From the acclaimed author of Losing Eden (“Powerful, beautifully written”—Anthony Doerr) an important, moving, passionate and passionately written inquiry—personal and scientific—into what happens—mentally, spiritually, physically, during the process of becoming a mother, from pregnancy and childbirth to early motherhood and what this profound process tells us about the way we live now.

In this important and ground-breaking, deeply personal investigation, Jones writes of the emerging concept of “matrescence” – the wholeness of becoming a mother.

Drawing on her own experiences of twice becoming a mother, as well as exploring the latest research in the fields of neuroscience and evolutionary biology; psychoanalysis and existential therapy; sociology, economics and ecology, Jones writes of the physical and emotional changes in the maternal mind, body, and spirit and shows us how these changes are far more profound, wild, and enduring than have been previously explored or written about.

Part memoir, part scientific and health reporting, part social critique, ecological philosophy, eco-feminism and nature writing, Matrescence is a kind of whodunnit, ferreting out with the most nuanced, searing and honest observations, why mothers throughout this heightened transition are at a breaking point, and what the institution of intensive, isolated motherhood can tell us about our still-dominant social and cultural myths.

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Imprint: Pantheon Books
Release date: May 2024
Authors: Lucy Jones
Dimensions: 242 x 172 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-0-593-31731-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Advice on parenting > General
Books > Biography > General
LSN: 0-593-31731-9
Barcode: 9780593317310

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