Zoe Strimpel reflects on the extraordinary experience of ‘crossing the rubicon separating non-motherhood from matrescence’.
‘I had never quite put aside an abiding ambivalence about having a baby, even during pregnancy,’ writes Zoe.
But in the space of thirty minutes - and the delivery of a baby girl by C-section - Zoe says, ‘my hop over the long-tended, long-contemplated border with motherland rapidly resolved as her tiny features came into focus and a sense of interestingness became a sense of desperate affection and even of familiarity.’
Producer: Adele Armstrong Sound: Peter Bosher Production coordinator: Liam Morrey Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
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Jubilee Musings
On Rubble
Home from Home
The War with Words
Basic Instincts in the House of Commons
Reconsidering Cannabis and the Law
The Unlistened-to Story
What is a Woman?
A View From Russia: All I Have To Say
Helpless
Tolstoy in Our Time
Every Picture Tells a Story
There Are No Words
Return of the Bomb
It's Not Their War
An Ecological Reparation
Selective Vision
Misopedia
Leaving the Ivory Tower
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