Mother State - Helen Charman
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What does it mean to be a mother? Why does being a mum change the way the society sees you, and the way you move through the world?
Helen Charman is here with a new manifesto for motherhood. She’s ready to make a radical case for what liberated mothering could be.
This event travels from the 1970s to the 2010s, from the policing of breastfeeding to the cost of childcare, from Women’s Liberation to austerity, and introduces us to the communities that believe to nourish your children, you have to nourish the world around them.
Join this event and discover how to mother is a political act, and how motherhood is a state of a possibility.
Important information
Ticket Prices:
£8
Age Recommendation:
16+
Duration:
1 hour no interval
Norwich Book Festival: 24-27 October 2024
A brand-new festival celebrating stories comes to Norwich, 24-27 October. Norwich Book Festival is designed for readers, with a programme of events for everybody to enjoy. Taking place in England’s first UNESCO City of Literature, Norwich Book Festival includes events from across genres, including crime, popular-science and politics, as well as two days of free activities at The Forum in Norwich.
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Norwich Book Festival is presented by The Forum, alongside key partners National Centre for Writing, Norfolk County Council – Library and Information Service, and University of East Anglia, booksellers, and other local organisations.
About Helen Charman
Helen Charman is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. 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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‘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
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