Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
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Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
Unlike other cultures, which treat becoming a mother as a major, traumatic life crisis, with special social rites and rituals, Western societies had been failing to recognize matrescence as a major transition: a transition that involves a whole spectrum of emotional and existential ruptures, a transition that can make women ill, a transition in whi
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It is good to be a child wanted by her mother. The simple fact that every person begins inside another person haunts motherhood. The simple fact that most women push the infant out of their bodies haunts motherhood. The fact that many women feed their children from the milk in their breasts haunts motherhood. Without a female reproductive system th
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the cut - june 11 - 2024What If Motherhood Isn’t Transformative at All?
We’re often told that becoming a parent will alter one’s identity. For me, the change never came.
By Anastasia Berg, editor of the Point
Art: March Avery, Evening Reading, 1972/© 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Courtesy of the artist, Private Collection, and BLU
... See moreThe modern institution of intensive motherhood silences women, contributes to maternal mental illness, and leaves women too worn out to fight. To fight for what? Potentially transformative policy changes, such as proper maternity leave, flexible working hours, better and more affordable childcare. And even if you don’t have any compassion for new m
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