The Neurology of Motherhood: Maternal Subjectivities and Embodied Experiences

by Linda Burnett

In motherhood, many women experience feelings of great intensity, a strong and passionate bond with their child, and a sense of personal transformation. For these women the experiences of pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and embodied care are felt as central to the construction of their sense of self as a mother. By and large, however, feminist theory and scholarship has placed more emphasis on the social and discursive structuring of maternal experiences,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184872425X
• ISBN13: 9781848724259
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages