Motherlike by Katherine Leyton

As soon as Katherine Leyton discovered she was pregnant, a powerful reckoning began.Motherlikeis 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. (From Second Story Press)

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KatherineLeyton is a nonfiction writer, poet and screenwriter from Toronto. Her first book of poetryAll the Gold Hurts My Mouthwon the2018 ReLit Award for poetry.

Interviews with Katherine Leyton

All in a Day11:59Katherine Leyton's book MOTHERLIKE

Katherine talks about the pains, joys, injustices and angers of being a mother in today's society