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Mother State

Mother State

A Political History of Motherhood

Reviews

  • [Charman] writes with intelligence and generosity, and sprinkles her history with details that are enraging, provocative and, frequently, amusing
    Megan Gibson, The New Statesman

About the author

Helen Charman

Helen Charman is a Fellow and College Teaching Officer in English at Clare College, University of Cambridge. Her critical writing has been published in the Guardian, The White Review, Another Gaze, and The Stinging Fly among others. As a poet, Charman was shortlisted for the White Review Poet's Prize in 2017 and for the 2019 Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment, and has published four poetry pamphlets, most recently In the Pleasure Dairy. Charman volunteers as a birth companion in Glasgow.
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