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Book SynopsisCharman 'writes with intelligence and generosity, and sprinkles her history with details that are enraging, provocative and, frequently, amusing' - Megan Gibson, The New StatesmanMother State 'blows open the dominant view of mothering instead Charman's history from below situates a radical collective conception of motherhood and care as central to all our lives meticulously researched... Mother State is both a prodigious historical analysis and a sobering one' - Ruth Gilbert, New Internationalist'Intellectually luminous and deeply affecting, Mother State is a remarkable, revelatory and life-changing book, and an indispensable tool and guide in the ongoing struggle towards radical, liberated and collective care' Daisy Lafarge'With ease and precision, Charman examines all the waged and unwaged labour that create mothers as well as the political processes that produce their vexed relationship to the British state. Mother State is at once a sorely needed politicised history of motherhood
