Moving commandingly between pop cultural references such as Roald Dahl's 'Matilda' to observations about motherhood in the ancient world, from and thoughts about the stigmatization of single mothers in the UK, Mothers delivers a groundbreaking report into something so prevalent we hardly notice.

This book-length essay turns as much to the ancient world as it does popular culture in order to address the figure of the mother in human feeling, history and culture. Praised by Edward Said and Shami Chakrabarti.