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Leslie Jamison is a contemporary voice we must listen to. Compared to Joan Didion, Susan Sontag, her ability to touch us where we also live, her insistence that she explore challenging material, makes her more than just readable. Moving forward with material that challenges, her most recent publication requires she reveal an even more personal viewpoint.
“…the day after my daughter’s birth, I found myself emphasizing how much I held her, how I never wanted to put her down. It was as if I felt the need to compensate narratively for that first hour, when I wasn’t able to hold her at all—to insist that we bonded just as much anyway. I found myself exaggerating the part about the not caring if I was numb before they cut me open, when in fact I did care.
But Jamison knows and we know, that for most of history, the procedure saved only one life, and it wasn’t the mother’s. Not until the 20century did the mother survive, Before that, it was usually used as a last-ditch effort to save the child, the mother dying,Historically and in literature, the C-section was often associated with the imperial, the divinity.
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