My guest is the journalist and writer Chelsea Conaboy, author of the fantastic book Mother Brain, which takes the repressive notion of ‘maternal instinct’ to task as a social control mechanism created by men.
Replete with contemporary neuroscience data, as well as religious and historical writings, the book, and our conversation, presents the role of being a parent in far more fluid and expansive terms than our common parlance provides.
More information about Chelsea Conaboy can be found here:
Mother Brain can be found here (the paperback edition comes out 9/19/2023):
And Chelsea Conaboy’s substack can be found here:
The podcast includes the following songs by New England pianist Ben Cosgrove:
“From Ten Thousand Feet”
“Salt” and
“Palo Alto”
The interview can be found on the podcast tab or by clicking here: https://www.oursociallandscape.com/podcast/episode/e8a4de7a/chelsea-conaboy-confronts-maternal-instinct-its-an-idea-that-allows-us-to-do-less
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