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A SPINIFEX FEMINIST CLASSIC

In this collection of essays, performance pieces, poetry and prose, mother as noun, appendage and agenda is mined for meaning in the contemporary world. Mothers are spectacular, for every child there is a mother even if unknown. Is she a bad mother, a good mother, a TV mother, a kitchen mother, an immortal mother, a devil mother, an immaculate mother? Is she the source of your mother tongue, is she mother nature incarnate, the mother of all shopping? Mothers reject through bodies and blood, tears and mud. We grieve for her. And there are other kinds of mothers, the lodestone mined for ore, the womb mined for eggs. Whatever her role, the mother carries many loads.