Academics are starting to consider the positive possibilities for change that matrescence may bring. Writing in Philosophical Inquiries into Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering Maternal Subjects, the philosopher Brooke Schueneman describes becoming a mother as a time of “substantial imagination and self-exploration” that has been neglected and obscured. She argues that according to the Socratic, Platonist and Hellenistic assertion of philosophy as a way of learning how to die in order to live more fully, mothers are in a “prime position to embrace this ancient, but relevant, exercise.” “Many
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