Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood Family Poetry Combining stills from the series

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"This memoir puts a human face on a struggle that many students will primarily know from textbooks… Visually stunning

Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood Family Poetry Combining stills from the seriesA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR An important, moving, passionate and passionately written inquirypersonal and scientificinto what happensmentally, 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. Wide ranging and hugely ambitiousMarshalling memoir, science, sociology, and history, Jones argues that, outside of