Matrescence by Lucy Jones

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Matrescence by Lucy Jones | 1.29 MB
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Title: Matrescence
Author: Lucy Jones
Year: 2023​



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*A New Statesman and Daily Mail BOOK OF THE YEAR*
*Longlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction*

'The best book I've ever read about motherhood' Jude Rogers, Observer
'I kept scribbling in the margins: 'We need to know this stuff!'' Joanna Pocock, Spectator

A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and body

During pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood, women undergo a far-reaching physiological, psychological and social metamorphosis.
There is no other time in a human's life course that entails such dramatic change-other than adolescence. And yet this life-altering transition has been sorely neglected by science, medicine and philosophy. Its seismic effects go largely unrepresented across literature and the arts. Speaking about motherhood as anything other than a pastel-hued dream remains, for the most part, taboo.
In this...

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