Motherhood in Literature and Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe
Redaktion: Rye, Gill; Lee Six, Abigail; Jeremiah, Emily; Giorgio, Adalgisa; Browne, Victoria

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317235460
• Artikelnr.: 48785835

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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