ONLINE BOOKCLUB // motherhood between theory & fiction

Due to the unprecidented success of our dual-reading bookclub at The Madre Project, we have now divided our sessions making one online & one in person.

This is a critical reading group exploring motherhood, reproduction, care, labour and identity through dual reading. Each session pairs fiction with critical theory, philosophy, memoir, or cultural criticism — creating space to think collectively about the maternal beyond sentimentality and stereotype.

Led and facilitated by @themotherresearcher; Sandy is founder of The Madre Project & a lecturer in philosophy at The University of Chichester, where she is researching a PhD on the biopolitics of motherhood.

In our fifth session, we’ll read Daidy Johnson's Long Wave alongside Adrienne Rich Of Woman Born (particularly chapter 9). In this bookclub we will particularly look at the role of maternal lineage and matrophobia - or the fear of becoming her!

Each book club meeting is open to all. Breaking down barriers to gathering, and bringing together people of diverse caring identities is at the heart of The Madre Project mission. At checkout please select the suggested exhange amount if you can afford to - this supports our work as a nonprofit CIC. Alternatively, please pay as you can PAYC - in line with our philosophy that finances should never be a barrier to partcipation.

If youd like to learn more about previous bookclubs please find us on Instagram @themadreproject