Matrescence on pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood
"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 evo...
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
[2023]
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| Edition: | First United States edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Part One: Tadpoles. All-day sickness
- The emotional placenta
- Zombie cells
- Part Two: Volcano. Birth
- Part Three: Colony. Feeding
- The maternal brain
- Motherhood and sociality
- Setraline and sleep deprivation
- Part Four: Matriphagy. Maternal ambivalence
- Intensive motherhood
- Part Five: Mycelium. Recombobulation
- Care work and creativity in late-stage capitalism
- Matroreform
- Epilogue.
