Review | Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood

Review | Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood

Motherhood isn’t just personal, it’s political. Kika Hendry reviews Mother State, and how the state shapes who gets to mother, who suffers, and who survives — and what a liberated future could look like. Mother State by Helen Charman, with painting by artist Paula Modersohn-Beker, one of the first to depict herself pregnant and breastfeeding. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Considering motherhood raises a critical political question: what does it …