Motherlike
Gabrielle Veilleux
, Agnes Marshall
, Barry Kazimer
, Dawn Macdonald
, Holly Elisabeth
, Jude Castillo
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Sarah Schwartz
, Tatiana Robinson
, Linda Leitch
, Kirsten Lyon
, Marilyn Stanley
, Deb Philippon
, Mary Lester
, cassandra schiemann
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Hoda Montazeri
, Vera Ogot
, Noelle Walsh
, Lynn Andrews
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Claire Gear
, Sharon Forzley
, Jen Amos
, Mary Danieli
, Laura Patterson
, Kevin Smith
, Naomi MacKinnon
, Natasa Ilic
, Sindi Nika
, Amanda Schempp
, Karen Segal
, Andrea Pole
, Tanya Blake
, Benita Hartwell
, Heather Belliveau
, Jennifer Morse
, Kim Cappellina
, Sarah Beaudin
, Rachel Lutz
, M M English
, jane luce
, BJ Underwood
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Elaine Baptie
, Nancy Daoust
, Jenna Lyn Albert
, Randi Ann Doll
, Janet Meisner
, Janice Cournoyer
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Anne Range
, Paula Adam
, Joe Mitchell
, Joan Clare
, Rebecca Morris
, Christine Lion
, Lynn Bechtel
, Barbara Leckie
, Sara Conway
, Karen Nordrum
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Ken Gilmour
, Katie Masterson-White
, Melissa Poremba
, Lisa Ostrowski
, Janet Miller
, Hailey Slaviero
, Prabh Toor
, Sara Power
, Kym Marsh
, Carrie Morris
, Connie Sparrow
, Erica Atfield
, Rachel Edmonds
, Christa Seeley
, Shonna Froebel
, Leslie Vermeer
, Joshua Lewis
, Kathleen Mary Kilmer
, Susan Fitzgerald
, Margaret McKay
, Meaghan Krygier
, Kaylie Seed
, Paris Semansky
, Nicki D'Angelo
, Susan Jang
, Maureen Brownlee
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Cynthia Heinrichs
editor@49thShelf.com
As soon as Katherine Leyton discovered she was pregnant, a powerful reckoning began. Motherlike is both a feminist memoir of new motherhood as well as a rumination on womanhood. A book for anyone interested in an honest and revealing look at a process that is essential to our experience as humans, and yet is routinely unexamined and dismissed.
Sharp and intensely candid, entertaining, and deeply poignant, Leyton weaves her own experience of becoming a mother to her son (the shocks, the strangeness, and the pleasures) with historical research and cultural commentary. Everything from the history of the birth control pill and the objectification of women's bodies to the risks of labor and the realities of being postpartum. Leyton invites us into a very personal story that reflects a larger picture of ourselves.
