{"product_id":"9780141996592-mother-state","title":"Mother State","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Political History of Motherhood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003cb\u003eCharman \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ewrites with intelligence and generosity, and sprinkles her history with details that are enraging, provocative and, frequently, amusing' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMotherhood is a political state. Helen Charman makes a radical case for what liberated mothering could be, and tells the story of what motherhood has been, from the 1970s to the 2010s.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen we talk about motherhood and politics together, we usually talk about isolated moments - the policing of breastfeeding, or the cost of childcare. But this is not enough: we need to understand motherhood itself as an inherently political state, one that has the potential to pose a serious challenge to the status quo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMother State,\u003c\/i\u003e Helen Charman uses this provocative insight to write a new history of Britain and Northern Ireland. Beginning with Women's Liberation and ending with austerity, the book follows mothers' fights for an alternative future. Alongside the mother figures that loom large in British culture, from Margaret Thatcher to Kat Slater, we meet communities of lesbian squatters, anti-nuclear campaigners, the wives of striking miners and teenage mothers protesting housing cuts: groups who believed that if you want to nourish your children, you have to nourish the world around them, too.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere we see a world where motherhood is not a restrictive identity but a state of possibility. 'Mother' ceases to be an individual responsibility, and becomes an expansive collective term to organise under, for people of any gender, with or without children of their own. It begins with an understanding: that to mother is a political act.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55125678621046,"sku":"9780141996592","price":12.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34964522_79375174-6ba4-4018-8e8d-9cb4d8aceb21.jpg?v=1750931386","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141996592-mother-state","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}