Becoming a mother

A Life's Work:On Becoming a Mother

No woman is born a mother. Insightful birth records reveal the anxieties and torments women endure. Thanks to this era, childbirth, like marriage, has finally become a debatable issue. Pregnancy and childbirth not only distinguish men from women, but also women from one another. After pregnancy and childbirth, a woman's understanding of the meaning of existence undergoes a profound shift. She harbors another person within her, and the child, once born, is governed by her consciousness. With the child around, she cannot be herself; without the child, she cannot be herself either. Every member of the human race undergoes the incredibly arduous journey from birth to independence, a journey that necessitates a period of a woman's life.
"Becoming a Mother" faithfully presents this period of life, a process in which ordinary life changes from being invisible and intangible to intense passion, love and slavery, and it is also a bondage and a compromise.
What does it feel like to be a mother? What's it like to care for a tiny baby? And how does the mother feel when the child grows up and develops their own consciousness? British writer Rachel Cusk chronicles her multifaceted experiences of that year: personal freedom, the end of sleep and time, a renewed understanding of human nature and hard work, a search for the true meaning of love, a journey between madness and death, emotional experiences with infants and young children, and reflections on breastfeeding...

2019-01-01

上海人民出版社

Century Wenjing

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9787208152588