Mother State: Helen Charman in conversation with Kate Briggs

'motherhood is frequently politicised, but rarely acknowledged in all its fullness to be political'

Helen Charman, a Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, whose writing has been published in The Guardian, The White Review, Another Gaze and The Stinging Fly discusses her new book, Mother State. The impetus behind her book - a history of motherhood in the UK and Ireland - is that motherhood is an inherently political state of being, and should be considered in terms of collective responsibilities as well as individual. The communites that she is interested in - anti-nuclear campaigners, lesbian squatters, the wives of striking miners... - present a world in which mothering is a powerful, radical act.

She will be joined in conversation by Kate Briggs (The Long Form and This Little Art, both published by Fitzcarraldo).

Host or Publisher John Sandoe Books