Motherhood and its many meanings and expectations are created and experienced within the particular realities of our society and history. And to better understand some of our shared national history with mothering we sat down with Professor Michele Goodwin of the University of California-Irvine who is author of the book Policing the Womb:  Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood.

"Policing the Womb" by Prof. Michele Goodwin brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies.

(Cambridge University Press)