Womb fruit / Megan James.

"Womb Fruit is a richly auto-ethnographic work stitching together recurring themes of fertility, growth, regeneration, and loss whilst situating the personal against historical myth. The writing performs the painful, erratic, variable, unstable and cyclical female experience, encouraging the reader to stretch their assumptions of what constitutes the female experience as they journey through the idyllic misconceptions of maternal, paternal and infantile territories. This complex saga is woven with the notion of genetic responsibility and the emotional, physical and mental hazards, hardships, and insights that surround birth, life, and loss in the nexus between motherhood and disease. The machinations of the female body are layered onto the body politic, attempting to define the complicated dimensionality of this lived experience."--From publisher's website.