There are both tangible and metaphorical links between modern industrial agriculture, medicalized fertility care, and medicalized birth. If we can throttle back our urge to control, and let our bodies and our land rewild themselves, we may find better health.
A field of my own
Capitalism and Fertility Anxiety
Right now, so many of us of ‘childbearing age’ are at a dark turning point, wondering how to move forward with our mammalian instinct to procreate clashing with our mental health and rational understanding of life in today’s crumbling economic and social structures. How do we deal with this fertility anxiety?