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An electrifying new vision of motherhood from the author of A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings - 'ASTONISHING' (Sunday Times)
‘A vulnerable, urgent, astonishing book’ Resurgence & EcologistWhen Helen Jukes falls pregnant, she does what anyone else would do. She searches for information to help make sense of the changes underway inside her. But as the months pass and her body becomes increasingly strange, the pregnancy guides seem insufficient; even the advice of her friends feels oppressive.So she widens her frame of reference, looking beyond humans to ask what motherhood looks like in other species. Here she begins a process of wilder enquiry, in which stories of spiders, polar bears, bonobos and burying beetles (among others) begin to unsettle and expand her notion of what mothering is; what it could be.A passionate, visceral and intimate account of a body changed, Mother Animal combines personal memoir with fresh insights from evolutionary biology, zoology and toxicology to ask the big questions that lie at the heart of what it means to be alive – and a mother – today.__‘Magnificent’ Lucy Jones, author of Matrescence‘Joyful and expansive’ Guardian‘Blows societal ideas about parenthood wide open.’ Marchelle Farrell, author of Uprooting‘Extraordinary... Read it to feel a slow detonation of mind-blowing understanding.’ Daisy Johnson, author of Sisters‘Honest and unflinching’ Stylist"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Helen Jukes' work has appeared in The New York Times, Port Magazine, Aeon and others. Her first book, A Honeybee Heart has Five Openings, received wide critical acclaim, and was shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag non-fiction award. Helen has led creative writing workshops for universities, literary organisations, a homelessness charity and a prison; she currently teaches at the University of Oxford, and lives with her daughter on the edge of the Peak District.
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. When Helen Jukes falls pregnant, she does what anyone else would do, searching for information to help make sense of the changes underway inside her. But as the months pass and her body becomes increasingly strange, the pregnancy guides seem insufficient; even the advice of her friends, passionate proponents of one birthing approach or another, feels oppressive. So she widens her frame of reference, looking beyond humans to ask what motherhood looks like in other species. Here begins a queerer, wilder process of enquiry one in which spiders, polar bears, bonobos and burying beetles (among others) begin to unsettle & expand her notion of what mothering is; what it could be. As she enters the sleeplessness, chaos and intimate discoveries of life with a newborn, these animal stories become Helens companions and guides. Revealing the deceits inherent in the vision of the natural mother the muted nursery walls of Instagram and the airbrushed images designed to sell her things she becomes increasingly compelled to explore where her own animality begins and ends, and to fathom how the stuff of human industry has come to influence life even from its very beginnings. A passionate, visceral and radical account of a body changed, Mother Animal combines personal memoir with fresh insights from evolutionary biology, zoology and toxicology to reach through to questions that lie at the heart of what it means to be alive and a mother today. A memoir with a startling new vision of motherhood: one that is as wild and diverse as the world in which we live and the animals with which we share it. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781783968381
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