Motherhood Is a Political Category
And you’re not wrong to feel disenfranchised by it
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6 min readMay 10, 2019
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There’s a word I love, “matrescence,” which describes the psychological process of becoming a mother. Psychologist Aurélie Athan brought it into the mainstream after discovering anthropologist Dana Raphael’s work; both women had seen the need for research about a mother’s interior state when functioning as a person…