{"product_id":"matrescence-on-pregnancy-childbirth-and-motherhood","title":"Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORKER \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - An important, moving, passionate and passionately written inquiry--personal and scientific--into what happens--mentally, spiritually, physically, during the process of becoming a mother, from pregnancy and childbirth to early motherhood and what this profound process tells us about the way we live now.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Wide-ranging and hugely ambitious...Marshalling memoir, science, sociology, and history, Jones argues that, outside of adolescence, there is no transformation as dramatic in a human's life [as motherhood], in both its emotional and biological impacts.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this important and ground-breaking, deeply personal investigation, Jones writes of the emerging concept of \"matrescence\" - the wholeness of becoming a mother. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on her own experiences of twice becoming a mother, as well as exploring the latest research in the fields of neuroscience and evolutionary biology; psychoanalysis and existential therapy; sociology, economics and ecology, Jones writes of the physical and emotional changes in the maternal mind, body, and spirit and shows us how these changes are far more profound, wild, and enduring than have been previously explored or written about. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart memoir, part scientific and health reporting, part social critique, ecological philosophy, eco-feminism and nature writing, \u003ci\u003eMatrescence\u003c\/i\u003e is a kind of whodunnit, ferreting out with the most nuanced, searing and honest observations, why mothers throughout this heightened transition are at a breaking point, and what the institution of intensive, isolated motherhood can tell us about our still-dominant social and cultural myths.","brand":"Lucy Jones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52041526706477,"sku":"BS-8XD-469309","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/9780593469309-HD.jpg?v=1777995042","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/matrescence-on-pregnancy-childbirth-and-motherhood","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}