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Lette Bragg examines maternity and the demands of academic writing through reflections on care, dependence and the limits of theoretical language. The book considers what happens when the experience of mothering enters spaces organized around intellectual work and solitary authorship.
Chapters including Writing to Stay in Touch, Reaching for Being, Parting Intimacy and Body-Theory connect embodied experience with questions of relation and expression. Bragg draws on philosophical reading and personal experience to investigate tensions between the language of theory and the practical demands of attending to another person.
The resulting work combines reflective prose with an argument about how academic discourse meets experiences it cannot easily contain. Its short chapters offer readers several approaches to the relationship between thought, writing, exhaustion and intimacy.