Pregnant women ‘nest’. But there’s nothing biological about it
The ‘nesting mother’ stereotype is as common as it is unscientific: there is no hormonal drive for doing housework
by Arianne Shahvisi
Arianne Shahvisi is a senior lecturer in ethics at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Her writing has been published in Prospect and the London Review of Books, among others. She is as an editorial board member of Kohl: Journal for Feminist Research on Gender and the Body and is science editor for the online literary magazine The Offing.
Written by Arianne Shahvisi