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Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood

English

By (author): Lucy Jones

*A New Statesman and Daily Mail BOOK OF THE YEAR*
*Longlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction*


'The best book I've ever read about motherhood' Jude Rogers, Observer
'I kept scribbling in the margins: 'We need to know this stuff!'' Joanna Pocock, Spectator

A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and body

During pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood, women undergo a far-reaching physiological, psychological and social metamorphosis.

There is no other time in a human's life course that entails such dramatic change-other than adolescence. 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. Speaking about motherhood as anything other than a pastel-hued dream remains, for the most part, taboo.

In this ground-breaking, deeply personal investigation, acclaimed journalist and author Lucy Jones brings to light the emerging concept of 'matrescence'. Drawing on new research across various fields - neuroscience and evolutionary biology; psychoanalysis and existential therapy; sociology, economics and ecology - Jones shows how the changes in the maternal mind, brain and body are far more profound, wild and enduring than we have been led to believe. 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.

Here is an urgent examination of the modern institution of motherhood, which seeks to unshackle all parents from oppressive social norms. As it deepens our understanding of matrescence, it raises vital questions about motherhood and femininity; interdependence and individual identity; as well as about our relationships with each other and the living world.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 520g
  • Dimensions: 162 x 238mm
  • Publication Date: 22 Jun 2023
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780241513484

About Lucy Jones

Lucy Jones is a writer and journalist based in Hampshire England. She previously worked at NME and the Daily Telegraph and her writing on culture science and nature has been published in GQ BBC Wildlife The Sunday Times the Guardian and the New Statesman. She is the author of Foxes Unearthed which won the Society of Authors' Roger Deakin Award 2015; Losing Eden which was long-listed for the Wainwright Prize and named a Times and Telegraph book of the year; and Matrescence a thrilling examination of what it means to be a mother (Observer) which has been longlisted for the inaugural Womens Prize for Nonfiction.

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