About this Event
Lara Feigel, author of 'Custody: The Secret History of Mothers' will be in conversation with Charlotte Proudman, author of ‘He Said, She Said: Truth, Trauma and the Struggle for Justice in the Family Court'. They will be discussing Feigel's new book 'Custody: The Secret History of Mothers’ and larger questions of child custody past, present and future.
About the Book
Every day, for over a century, children have been moved between homes because of law cases that decide their fates. Yet child custody is curiously absent from history books and from how we generally understand our world. Lara Feigel’s groundbreaking book shows the fraught, complex territory of child custody to have been one of the vital battlegrounds of modern history and culture.Custody is the story of seven women – Caroline Norton, George Sand, Elizabeth Packard, Frieda Lawrence, Edna O’Brien, Alice Walker, Britney Spears – who have fought for their children and been found wanting. It is also an urgent intervention in the present, because Feigel has been observing custody cases in the courts today and finding that not enough has changed.
About the Speakers
Lara Feigel is the author of four highly acclaimed works of cultural history and a novel. Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at King’s College London and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she reviews regularly for theGuardianand contributes to a range of BBC radio programmes. Most recently, Feigel appeared as a lead contributor in the landmark BBC 1 cultural history of the interwar years,Art that Made Us, and she wrote and presented a programme about Doris Lessing for the Radio 4 prestigiousArchive Hourslot.
Dr. Charlotte Proudman is a distinguished British barrister and academic who has established herself as a leading authority in family law, particularly in cases involving domestic abuse, coercive control, and gender-based violence.She has recently opened her own solicitor's firm, and has emerged as a powerful advocate for systemic change in the family justice system. Her founding of the non-profit organisation Right to Equality demonstrates her commitment to advancing women's rights through both legal channels and grassroots activism.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Hatchards, 187 Piccadilly, London, United Kingdom
GBP 5.00 to GBP 10.00
