Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy

by Angela Garbes

We are all born from female bodies, and so we have all experienced birth firsthand. We were all female once, too. All humans will grow female parts unless, around the tenth week of pregnancy, hormones called androgens direct a fetus to develop testes and a penis. Female is our origin sex.

I have only recently begun to stop thinking of myself as two separate people, the former me and the mother, divided neatly into albums.