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Arianne Shahvisi

Senior Lecturer in Ethics, Brighton and Sussex Medical School

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

Photo of a woman in a nursery next to a crib with colourful blankets and a chair by a window with white curtains.

Parenting and families

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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