Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood - Lucy Jones
A brilliant, fierce exploration of motherhood! This isn’t just a beautiful cover - Lucy Jones brings substance and fascinating insight as she write part scientific research, part memoir and part social commentary. She brings her previous writings on science and nature to this book, exploring motherhood across species and ecologies with notes on spiders that eat their own mothers, the aurora borealis and vampire bats.
Pregnancy, childbirth and early motherhood are times of immense, seismic change and this book manages to tackle so much with voracity and wisdom. Jones shows how the changes in the maternal mind, brain and body are far more profound, wild and enduring than we have been led to believe. She reveals the dangerous consequences of our neglect of the maternal experience and interrogates the patriarchal and capitalist systems that have created the untenable situation mothers face today.
A brilliant, fierce exploration of motherhood! This isn’t just a beautiful cover - Lucy Jones brings substance and fascinating insight as she write part scientific research, part memoir and part social commentary. She brings her previous writings on science and nature to this book, exploring motherhood across species and ecologies with notes on spiders that eat their own mothers, the aurora borealis and vampire bats.
Pregnancy, childbirth and early motherhood are times of immense, seismic change and this book manages to tackle so much with voracity and wisdom. Jones shows how the changes in the maternal mind, brain and body are far more profound, wild and enduring than we have been led to believe. She reveals the dangerous consequences of our neglect of the maternal experience and interrogates the patriarchal and capitalist systems that have created the untenable situation mothers face today.
A brilliant, fierce exploration of motherhood! This isn’t just a beautiful cover - Lucy Jones brings substance and fascinating insight as she write part scientific research, part memoir and part social commentary. She brings her previous writings on science and nature to this book, exploring motherhood across species and ecologies with notes on spiders that eat their own mothers, the aurora borealis and vampire bats.
Pregnancy, childbirth and early motherhood are times of immense, seismic change and this book manages to tackle so much with voracity and wisdom. Jones shows how the changes in the maternal mind, brain and body are far more profound, wild and enduring than we have been led to believe. She reveals the dangerous consequences of our neglect of the maternal experience and interrogates the patriarchal and capitalist systems that have created the untenable situation mothers face today.