AWW23: The Hazards of Motherhood - Esther Freud & Gina Rushton

Published: March 27, 2023, 12:56 a.m.

Chair: Katrina Strickland

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Motherhood has forever been the repository for our deepest collective fantasies and anxieties. In an era when debates over abortion, reproductive technologies and gender politics rage, the moralism and sentimentalism around motherhood has been given renewed intensity. Esther Freud and Gina Rushton have both explored the role of mothers in their writing and continue the conversation here with Katrina Strickland.

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Event details: Wed 08 Mar, 5:00pm on the East Stage