The Cost of Labour
how we are all trapped by the politics of pregnancy and parenting
$30.39
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
8 February 2022
Summary
The Cost of Labour: Motherhood, Mental Health, and the Modern Woman
Natalie Kon-Yu was nine weeks pregnant when the trembling began. Two weeks later she checked herself into a mental health unit. Though she was in crisis, the GPs, nurses and psychiatrists couldn’t see beyond Natalie’s precious cargo. She was made to feel that her pregnancy outweighed her mental health. This loss of agency lingered long into her early years of motherhood. In that time, she discovered that she was far…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922626868 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922626864 |
| Author: | Natalie Kon-yu |
| Publisher: | Affirm Press |
| Imprint: | Affirm Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 8 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 380g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 155mm x 24mm |
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About The Author
Natalie Kon-yu
Natalie Kon-yu is a writer, academic and editor whose work has been published nationally and internationally. She is the co-commissioning editor of #MeToo: Stories from the Australian Women’s Movement (Picador, 2019), Mothers and Others: Why Not All Women are Mothers and All Mothers are Not the Same (Pan Macmillan, 2015) and Just Between Us: Australian Writers Tell the Truth about Female Friendship (Pan Macmillan 2013).
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