BOOKCLUB // motherhood between theory & fiction

An in-person AND online dual reading bookclub for (m)others and anyone who enjoys critical reading! BOOKCLUB // motherhood between theory & fiction The Madre Project hosts a new monthly hybrid critical reading group exploring motherhood, reproduction, care, labour and identity through dual reading. Each session pairs fiction with critical theory, philosophy, memoir, or cultural criticism — creating space to think collectively about the maternal beyond sentimentality and stereotype. Led and facilitated by @themotherresearcher; Sandy is founder of The Madre Project & a lecturer in philosophy at The University of Chichester, where she is researching a PhD on the biopolitics of motherhood. In our third session we’ll read Sylvia Federici’s seminal essay Wages Against Housework alongside Caro Claire Burke’s contemporary novel Yesteryear. Both works have provoked polarising responses for almost opposing reasons. Together, they invite us to look beneath the romanticised image of motherhood and the home, asking what happens when the labour that sustains family life is sentimentalised. What can fiction reveal about the political argument, and what might Federici’s theory allow us to see differently in Burke’s novel? Each book club meeting is open to all & is hybrid - both in person and online. Breaking down barriers to gathering is at the heart of The Madre Project mission. At checkout please select in-person or online, should care responsibilities or circumstance change, you are welcome to attend online using the link provided ahead of the event.