{"product_id":"mother-animal-9781783968381","title":"Mother Animal","description":"When Helen Jukes falls pregnant, she does what anyone else would do. She searches for information to help make sense of the changes underway inside her. But as the months pass and her body becomes increasingly strange, the pregnancy guides seem insufficient; even the advice of her friends feels oppressive. So, she widens her frame of reference, looking beyond humans to ask what motherhood looks like in other species. Here she begins a process of wilder enquiry, in which stories of spiders, polar bears, bonobos and burying beetles (among others) begin to unsettle and expand her notion of what mothering is; what it could be. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A passionate, visceral and intimate account of a body changed, \u003ci\u003eMother Animal \u003c\/i\u003ecombines personal memoir with fresh insights from evolutionary biology, zoology and toxicology to ask the big questions that lie at the heart of what it means to be alive - and a mother - today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Elliott \u0026amp; Thompson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781783968381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224","brand":"Helen Jukes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52034372960437,"sku":"9781783968381","price":22.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3d2437fe-0f74-4dfa-b064-0f3cc2fe31df.jpg?v=1763593897","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mother-animal-9781783968381","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}