Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood by Jones, Lucy
Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood by Jones, Lucy

Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - An important, moving, passionate and passionately written inquiry--personal...
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Author: Lucy Jones
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Language: English
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Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood by Jones, Lucy

Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

$71.99 $40.00
Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood by Jones, Lucy

Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

$71.99 $40.00
Author: Lucy Jones
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
A NEW YORKER BEST 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.

"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." --The New Yorker

In this important and ground-breaking, deeply personal investigation, Jones writes of the emerging concept of "matrescence" - the wholeness of becoming a mother.

Drawing 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.

Part memoir, part scientific and health reporting, part social critique, ecological philosophy, eco-feminism and nature writing, Matrescence 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.

Author: Lucy Jones
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/24/2026
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.40w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780593469309

About the Author
LUCY JONES was born in Cambridge, England, and educated at University College London. She has written on culture, science and nature. Her articles have been published on BBC Earth and in The Sunday Times, The Guardian and the New Statesman. Her first book, Foxes Unearthed, received the Society of Authors' Roger Deakin Award. Jones lives in Hampshire, England.
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