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Body full of stars : female rage and my passage into motherhood

Title: Body full of stars : female rage and my passage into motherhood / Molly Caro May.
Author: May, Molly Caro
Publication: Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, [2018]

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260 pages; 24 cm

Summary

What if labor does not end with pregnancy but continues into a mother's postpartum life? How can the fiercest love for your child and the deepest wells of grief coexist in the same moment? How has society neglected honest conversation around the significant physical changes new mothers experience? Could real healing occur if generations of women were fluent in the language of their bodies? Molly Caro May grapples with these questions as she undergoes several unexpected health issues--pelvic-floor dysfunction, incontinence, hormonal imbalance--after the birth of her first child, Eula. While she and her husband navigate the ups and downs of new parenthood, May moves between shock, sadness, and anger over her body's betrayal. She finally identifies the root of her struggle as premenstrual dysphoric disorder and so begins her exploration of what she calls female rage. The process leads May to an overdue conversation with her body in an attempt to balance the physical changes she experiences with the emotional landscape opening up before her. Body Full of Stars is dark and tender, honest and corporeal. It reveals deeper truths about how disconnected many modern women are from their bodies. Most of all, it is a celebration of the greatest story of all time: mothers and daughters, partners and co-parents, and the feminine power surging beneath it all.

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Contents

Labor -- The girl who climbed trees -- Amass -- Became aware of her blood -- Release -- And took note of her shape -- Float -- As she grew into a woman -- Shed -- Who chose a cause and a person -- Ground -- And the moment to expand -- Mother.

Call Number

JFE 18-3933

ISBN

9781619024892
1619024896

LCCN

2017048087

OCLC

988849796

Author

May, Molly Caro, author.

Title

Body full of stars : female rage and my passage into motherhood / Molly Caro May.

Publisher

Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

JFE 18-3933

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