kencairn
Emily KenCairn

On Modern Mothering and Matrescence

A personal excavation of the experience of becoming a mother, motherhood, remothering, etc.

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Housewife

Mother Mother
A Circle of Quiet
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Matrescence

Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance
Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control
Essential Labor
The School for Good Mothers
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The Mamas

Screaming on the Inside
Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself
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The Baby on the Fire Escape

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Ordinary Insanity

Life Among the Savages
Cribsheet
Detransition, Baby
The Push
The Grand Permission
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The Myths of Motherhood

Daybook
Of woman born
The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change
Hold Still
The Argonauts
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Mothers

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To Have and to Hold

All We Can Save
Motherhood So White
Misconceptions
Body Full of Stars
Catastrophic Happiness: Finding Joy in Childhood's Messy Years
Small animals
A Life's Work
Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living
Amateur Hour: Motherhood in Essays and Swear Words
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I'm Just Happy to Be Here

Circe
Love and Trouble
Poser my life in twenty-three yoga poses
100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life
Momma Zen
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year