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Winner of the PEN Pinter Prize 2026
‘The brilliance of her literary insight, the lucidity of her prose, and the subtlety of her analyses are simply breathtaking’ Edward Said
‘A model of what a public intellectual should be’ Slavoj Žižek
From one of the most important contemporary thinkers, a compelling, forceful tract about women and motherhood that demands immediate attention. Moving commandingly between pop cultural references such as Roald Dahl’s ‘Matilda’ to observations about motherhood in the ancient world and thoughts about the stigmatization of single mothers in the UK, Mothers delivers a groundbreaking report into this often flattened and overlooked figure.
JacquelineRose
Jacqueline Rose is an internationally renowned feminist literary and cultural critic. She is the co-director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, co-founder of Independent Jewish Voices and a fellow of the British Academy. Rose is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books and the Guardian, among many other publications. She is the author of Sexuality in the Field of Vision and The Haunting…
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