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Hardback | 320 pages162 x 242 x 36 | 518g
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. 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. During pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood, women undergo a far-reaching physiological, psychological and social metamorphosis. Interested in audiobooks too? There is no other time in a human's life course that entails such dramatic change other than adolescence. 'The best book I've ever read about motherhood' Jude Rogers, Observer'I kept scribbling in the margins: 'We need to know this stuff! " There is no other time in a human's life course that entails such dramatic change-other than adolescence. After years of hearing their patients say, 'But how come no one told me?
Published on 22 June 2023 by Penguin Books Ltd (Allen Lane) in the United Kingdom.
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Karen Cudby
‘Matrescence’ the book will embolden you to do so. The desperation and joy.
The result is a wonderful story of one woman’s brutally truthful experience of matrescence, interspersed with examples of metamorphosis and matrescence from other species, as if to put the human experience of motherhood into a much bigger context, whilst also managing to deliver a summary history of motherhood paradigms and ideologies throughout the ages. If you have been a mom with children of any age, you will find something here that gives you some ‘aha’ moments…whether that’s learning how the institution of motherhood has been manipulated to suit altering political agendas, or learning how neuroscience is now beginning to explain why a Motherhood Identity crisis actually occurs, or understanding the best way to support a mum with young children in 2023, whose reality is likely to be very different from our own experience of matrescence, there is something here for every one.
Lucy, thank you. All of this is delivered unapologetically, with a throbbing undercurrent of an earnest feminist perspective. You have done us all a great service and I think the ripples of this book will contribute to empowering individual women to take the reins of their own matrescence and direct it back to their center. I believe that many moms will feel seen and heard in their motherhood journey in a way that previously has only been ‘allowed’ to be expressed using humor.
The powerlessness and the fulfillment. New and aspiring moms should read it to supplement their NCT classes and round out their expectations of the next few years. Her anecdotes from early motherhood, stirred emotions in me because of the way they touched nerves that I didn’t know were still exposed.
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