This book explores cultural representations of motherhood in Europe and considers how they affect how motherhood is negotiated as both institution and lived experience. It focuses on literature, and also includes essays on representations in philosophy, art, social policy, TV, and film. It expands hegemonic notions of motherhood, analyzing shifting conceptions of maternal subjectivity and embodiment, exploring contexts in which mothering takes place, and asking what it means to be a 'mother' in Europe today. It will be of interest to those working in gender, women's, and feminist studies,…mehr
This book explores cultural representations of motherhood in Europe and considers how they affect how motherhood is negotiated as both institution and lived experience. It focuses on literature, and also includes essays on representations in philosophy, art, social policy, TV, and film. It expands hegemonic notions of motherhood, analyzing shifting conceptions of maternal subjectivity and embodiment, exploring contexts in which mothering takes place, and asking what it means to be a 'mother' in Europe today. It will be of interest to those working in gender, women's, and feminist studies, literary and cultural studies, criminology, politics, medical ethics, midwifery, and related fields.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Gill Rye is Professor Emerita at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, UK. Victoria Browne is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Adalgisa Giorgio is Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies in the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies of the University of Bath, UK. Emily Jeremiah is Senior Lecturer in German and Gender Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Abigail Lee Six is Professor of Spanish at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
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CONTENTS Acknowledgements Foreword, Lisa Baraitser Introduction: Motherhood in Literature and Culture Gill Rye, Victoria Browne, Adalgisa Giorgio, Emily Jeremiah, and Abigail Lee Six Part I: Pregnancy and Birth 1: Birth Fear and the Subjugation of Women's Strength: Towards a Broader Conceptualization of Femininity in Birth Susannah Sweetman 2: The Temporalities of Pregnancy: On Contingency, Loss, and Waiting Victoria Browne 3: An (Un)Familiar Story: Exploring Ultrasound Poems by Contemporary British Women Writers Emily Blewitt 4: Birthing Tales and Collective Memory in Recent French Fiction Valerie Worth-Stylianou 5: Natality, Materiality, Maternity: The Sublime and the Grotesque in Contemporary Sculpture Christine Battersby Part II: Generation and Relation 6: Erasing Mother, Seeking Father: Biotechnological Interventions, Anxieties over Motherhood, and Donor Offspring's Narratives of Self Gabriele Griffin 7: Mums or Dads? Lesbian Mothers in France Gill Rye 8: The Kinning of the Transnationally Adopted Child in Contemporary Norway Signe Howell 9: Ties that Bind in Tanja Dückers's Novel Himmelskörper: History, Memory, and Making Sense of Motherhood in Twenty-First-Century Germany Katherine Stone 10: Matrixial Creativity and the Wit(h)nessing of Trauma: Reconnecting Mothers and Daughters in Marosia Castaldi's Novel Dentro le mie mani le tue: Tetralogia di Nightwater Adalgisa Giorgo Part III: Experience and Affect 11: Publicizing Vulnerability: Motherhood and Affect in Joanna Rajkowska's Post-2011 Art Justyna Wierzchowska 12: Present and Obscured: Disabled Women as Mothers in Social Policy Harriet Clarke 13: Nuria C. Botey's Short Story 'Viviendo con el tío Roy': Motherhood and Risk Assessment under Duress Abigail Lee Six 14: Broken Nights, Shattered Selves: Maternal Ambivalence and the Ethics of Interruption in Sarah Moss's Novel Night Waking Emily Jeremiah 15: Uncertain Mothers: Maternal Ambivalence in Alina Marazzi's Film Tutto parla di te Claudia Karagoz 16: 'How to Say Hello to the Sea': Literary Perspectives on Medico-Legal Narratives of Maternal Filicide Ruth Cain Part IV: Reflections 17: To Be or Not To Be (a Mother): Telling Academic and Personal Stories of Mothers and Others Gayle Letherby 18: Last Will and Testament: Potatoes, Love, and Poetry Ana Luisa Amaral List of Contributors Index
CONTENTS Acknowledgements Foreword, Lisa Baraitser Introduction: Motherhood in Literature and Culture Gill Rye, Victoria Browne, Adalgisa Giorgio, Emily Jeremiah, and Abigail Lee Six Part I: Pregnancy and Birth 1: Birth Fear and the Subjugation of Women's Strength: Towards a Broader Conceptualization of Femininity in Birth Susannah Sweetman 2: The Temporalities of Pregnancy: On Contingency, Loss, and Waiting Victoria Browne 3: An (Un)Familiar Story: Exploring Ultrasound Poems by Contemporary British Women Writers Emily Blewitt 4: Birthing Tales and Collective Memory in Recent French Fiction Valerie Worth-Stylianou 5: Natality, Materiality, Maternity: The Sublime and the Grotesque in Contemporary Sculpture Christine Battersby Part II: Generation and Relation 6: Erasing Mother, Seeking Father: Biotechnological Interventions, Anxieties over Motherhood, and Donor Offspring's Narratives of Self Gabriele Griffin 7: Mums or Dads? Lesbian Mothers in France Gill Rye 8: The Kinning of the Transnationally Adopted Child in Contemporary Norway Signe Howell 9: Ties that Bind in Tanja Dückers's Novel Himmelskörper: History, Memory, and Making Sense of Motherhood in Twenty-First-Century Germany Katherine Stone 10: Matrixial Creativity and the Wit(h)nessing of Trauma: Reconnecting Mothers and Daughters in Marosia Castaldi's Novel Dentro le mie mani le tue: Tetralogia di Nightwater Adalgisa Giorgo Part III: Experience and Affect 11: Publicizing Vulnerability: Motherhood and Affect in Joanna Rajkowska's Post-2011 Art Justyna Wierzchowska 12: Present and Obscured: Disabled Women as Mothers in Social Policy Harriet Clarke 13: Nuria C. Botey's Short Story 'Viviendo con el tío Roy': Motherhood and Risk Assessment under Duress Abigail Lee Six 14: Broken Nights, Shattered Selves: Maternal Ambivalence and the Ethics of Interruption in Sarah Moss's Novel Night Waking Emily Jeremiah 15: Uncertain Mothers: Maternal Ambivalence in Alina Marazzi's Film Tutto parla di te Claudia Karagoz 16: 'How to Say Hello to the Sea': Literary Perspectives on Medico-Legal Narratives of Maternal Filicide Ruth Cain Part IV: Reflections 17: To Be or Not To Be (a Mother): Telling Academic and Personal Stories of Mothers and Others Gayle Letherby 18: Last Will and Testament: Potatoes, Love, and Poetry Ana Luisa Amaral List of Contributors Index
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