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Author Zucker, Jessica, author

Title I had a miscarriage : a memoir, a movement / Jessica Zucker
Edition First Feminist Press edition
Published New York, NY : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2021

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Contents 1. "I thought I was out of the woods." -- 2. "I failed to give myself the space to fall apart." -- 3. "The strident trifecta: silence, stigma, and shame." -- 4. "I was understanding grief from a corporeal--not simply a theoretical--perspective." -- 5. "If only it could have continued on this way." -- 6. "I don't know what I expected her to say, but it wasn't that." -- 7. "The body and failure become conflated. It's a complicated coupling." -- 8. "Why did it feel as though this loss had only happened to me?" -- 9. "Can pleasure and grief coexist?" -- 10. "We are not going down on this note." -- 11. "The discordant refrain of what-if what-if what-if?" -- 12. "Sometimes rainbows follow storms. Sometimes they don't." -- 13. "Things. Things to have, and to hold, and to see, and to treasure." -- 14. "Sometimes, a witness is precisely what we need." -- Epilogue -- Notes
Summary "I HAD A MISCARRIAGE is Dr. Jessica Zucker's account of her miscarriage that occurred sixteen weeks into her pregnancy, and her journey of recovery following it. Drawing from her psychological expertise and her work as the creator of the viral #IHadaMiscarriage campaign, this book uses Zucker's and other women's experiences to explore grief, healing, and the power of speaking one's truth"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Zucker, Jessica.
Miscarriage -- Psychological aspects
Pregnant women -- United States -- Biography
Clinical psychologists -- United States -- Biography
Parental grief.
Clinical psychologists
Miscarriage -- Psychological aspects
Parental grief
Pregnant women
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020029351
ISBN 9781558612891
1558612890