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Journal articles on the topic "Motherhood in literature"

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Triwahana, Triwahana, and Desca Angelianawati. "Proposing Asian and African Motherhood through Literature: A Comparative Analysis." Indonesian Journal of English Language Studies (IJELS) 6, no. 2 (September 25, 2020): 77–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/ijels.v6i2.2859.

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Motherhood is seen as one of the essential aspects in a humans life. Although several values concerning motherhood is cross-cultural, its representation varied from time to time upon locations and cultures. Deriving from this line of thought, this paper compares the differing portrayal of motherhood from Asian and African literature. Undertaking the library studies, this article illustrates the depictions of motherhood and seeks to underline the reasoning why it is manifested through the selected literary works. The novels employed as the objects of study are The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta and Ibuk by Iwan Setyawan. The finding extrapolates a global conception towards motherhood and how it is presented. It is concluded that the depiction of motherhood in the novels is employed to maintain a social construction that privilege patriarchy. The African motherhood may be different than what they call Asian motherhood. Yet mothers, no matter where they are will always focus on their childrens well-doing.

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Aksehir, Mahinur, and Derya Şaşman-Kaylı. "The influence of motherhood in the construction of female identity: A subversive approach to motherhood in Erendiz Atasü’s novels." Journal of European Studies 51, no. 2 (May 31, 2021): 139–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00472441211010891.

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Within masculine ideology the concept of motherhood remains essential to female identity. That is why it is important to focus on the representations of motherhood in literature, where the most controversial discussions of feminism can be found. The issue of motherhood remains an unresolved issue today, with opposing arguments even within the feminist movement. This paper aims to analyse the issue of motherhood in the novels of Erendiz Atasü, who has acquired an undisputed place as a feminist writer in Turkish literature. She undermines the traditional concept of motherhood and uses it as a tool for deciphering and transforming masculine ideology.

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Elias, Stanley. "Comparative Reading of Motherhood Identities in East African and Indonesian Literature." Jurnal Humaniora 32, no. 2 (June 1, 2020): 170. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/jh.49832.

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The study comparatively examines the representation of motherhood identities and the trauma of being childless to women in African and Indonesian literary texts namely Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Secret Lives and other Stories, Elieshi Lema’s Parched Earth, Ratih Kumala’s Genesis and Iwan Setyawan’s Ibuk. Central to the analysis of this study is the argument that the existing cultural and religious discourses significantly contribute to the ways motherhood identities are construed in the society. Of a particular note, motherhood is argued to be a desired position that every woman wants most and is ready to sacrifice for it. Importantly, marriage, religious orientations and orders of the patriarchy certify motherhood and its related identities in the society. On the other hand, childlessness or failure to bear a male child circumscribe women in reduced forms of their identities and so subjects them to psychological and physical trauma and of course a social stigma.

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Dove, Rita. "Motherhood." Callaloo, no. 26 (1986): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2931035.

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Dove, Rita. "Motherhood." Callaloo 24, no. 3 (2001): 727. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cal.2001.0130.

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Beech, Olivia Donati, Leah Kaufmann, and Joel Anderson. "A Systematic Literature Review Exploring Objectification and Motherhood." Psychology of Women Quarterly 44, no. 4 (August 27, 2020): 521–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361684320949810.

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Objectification theory provides a theoretical framework for understanding how socialization and experiences of objectification can lead women to place excessive value on their appearance—a process known as self-objectification. Despite the number of women that are mothers, the application of objectification theory to motherhood has been relatively limited. This review synthesizes the available research exploring objectification during motherhood. We conducted a systematic search for published and unpublished articles that quantitatively examined the objectification of, or self-objectification during, motherhood across five databases in March 2019. The search yielded 23 studies across 20 articles, which in combination revealed strong evidence of societal objectification of mothers and self-objectification by mothers. Effects were found for pregnant and postpartum women, in both community and university samples of mothers. Outcomes included more body shame, concerns about the negative impact of breastfeeding, barriers to breastfeeding, fear of childbirth, disordered eating, and greater appearance concerns in mothers, and sexualized behaviors and body surveillance for their children. Some evidence indicated that self-objectifying may be protective for mothers in certain situations, but it was mostly associated with harmful consequences. Finally, some evidence suggested that there may be age and generational effects of objectification, which may impact all women, including mothers. We hope these findings highlight the benefits for women to engage in healthy relationships with their bodies and to consider the functionality of their body as it changes in preparation for entering motherhood.

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May, Vanessa. "Narrative identity and the re-conceptualization of lone motherhood." Narrative Inquiry 14, no. 1 (July 1, 2004): 169–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.14.1.08may.

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Lone motherhood tends to be viewed as something a woman is, an identity that defines the woman. This article takes a different route into lone motherhood by focusing on identity construction in the life stories of four Finnish lone mothers. Faced with dominant narratives that define lone motherhood in negative terms, the narrators construct a counter-normative account of their lone motherhood through a dialogue with different cultural narratives on motherhood, independence and family. Furthermore, the social category of lone motherhood is not one that the lone mothers themselves adopt in their narrative constructions of the self. Instead, they attempt to create space for themselves within the normative narratives on motherhood and womanhood, thus refuting the idea that lone motherhood is constitutive of identity. At the same time, the life stories reveal how powerful the cultural narratives on motherhood and family are – lone mothers can challenge them, but they can never escape these narratives completely. (Lone Motherhood, Narrative Identity, Life Stories, Cultural Narratives)

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Mohite, Ms Swati, and Dr Pradnya Vijay Ghorpade. "AFRICAN WOMEN’S QUEST FOR MOTHERHOOD IN FLORA NWAPA’S NOVELS EFURU AND IDU." Journal of English Language and Literature 10, no. 02 (2023): 145–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.54513/joell.2023.10215.

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The African classical tradition finds its development in African novel as African novels deals with variety of themes such as art, religion, apartheid, culture, tradition, ironies of life, colonial and post-colonial realities etc. African and Caribbean writing often celebrates black womanhood in a move towards a specifically African feminism. Mother is a person who nurtures and protects. African Literature in all ages celebrates motherhood and gives prime focus to motherhood in women’s’ life. Flora Nwapa, the Mother of female African Literature in English also treats motherhood as her main theme. Nwapa through her works portrays Igbo culture and Igbo Tradition. The lead characters in Efuru and Idu log for motherhood in their life and suffer in life because of it. Though successful in life in all other aspects they are considered incomplete because they are barren. Both the works deals with Motherhood and marriage as its prime focus and suffering of a woman and her quest for selfhood in the family and in society at large.

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Reeves, Kathleen. "From Choice to Possibility in Sheila Heti’s Motherhood." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 79, no. 3 (September 2023): 73–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/arq.2023.a909148.

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Abstract: Sheila Heti's 2018 novel, Motherhood, reorients the question of motherhood around possibility rather than choice. Misread by some critics as a memoir about the decision not to have a child, the novel instead emphasizes openness, chance, and change in order to articulate a form of freedom that is tied to indeterminacy rather than sovereignty. The novel points to the limitations of narratives of choice, suggesting instead that women’s experiences around reproduction await further description. Motherhood is thus engaged in the kind of project called for by the feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray: to define motherhood from the perspective of women. As both Irigaray and Heti make clear, this project must be shared by all women, whether or not they can or will have children. Heti’s novel demonstrates that, over fifty years after feminism’s second wave, motherhood continues to be circumscribed by patriarchy, and it points toward a feminist motherhood

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Stynska, Viktoriia, and Marta Oleksiuk. "Historiography of the problem of motherhood in scientific research in Ukraine late XX – early XXІ century." Bulletin of Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, no. 3 (357) (2023): 146–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.12958/2227-2844-2023-3(357)-146-153.

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This article provides a historical analysis of the category «motherhood» in Ukrainian scientific research late XX – early XX century. The following research methods were used as part of the study: systematic analysis, synthesis and generalization of scientific, educational and professional literature, theoretical and structural clarification methods of conceptual installations. On the basis of references, the author reveals the essence of the category of «motherhood» and expounds the author’s definition as a category of social education: motherhood is a social and cultural phenomenon that requires the support of social education from the state, society, and society. The main task of institutions and families is to examine wishes and needs and help create the conditions necessary to ensure mothers' rights to health care, education, work and full self-realization. It is characteristic that history allows us to identify the challenges, issues and norms associated with motherhood and how they have changed over time. The study found that in references to the social domain, the category “motherhood” was considered from the perspectives of the biological (reproductive function), social (educational function) and legal domains. In the scientific literature, the category “motherhood” is the subject of analysis in philosophical, medical, legal, sociological, pedagogical, and psychological studies. The author presents her own ideas for a mother-centred approach, at the heart of which is to channel social and educational support at the macro, meso and micro levels to create the conditions for the fulfillment of mothers' rights in society and within the family. It concludes that historical research on motherhood addresses the role of motherhood in history, shifting conceptions of motherhood, and the psychological, socio-educational, economic, sociocultural, medical, legal, and political aspects of motherhood across time and context.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Motherhood in literature"

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Farnum, O'Leary Christine J. "Motherhood portrayals in American literature /." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2008. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.

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Ben-Sira, Tallya. "Representation of motherhood in 19th and 20th century texts." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25262312.

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Bretag, Tracey. "Subversive mothers : contemporary women writers challenge motherhood ideology /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armb844.pdf.

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Totev, Stela Kostova. "Variation on motherhood in Woolf, Lawrence, and Joyce." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6445.

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Woolf, Lawrence, and Joyce all have a deep interest in the problem of the mother, and especially in the problem of the mother figured as a problem of the self. The main focus of their work is the identity of the self and how problematic it is to find or preserve that identity. In this quest, they raise some of the general concerns of modernism about origins. Since origins are a major aspect of self-definition, here is where the problem of motherhood begins. This thesis explores the mother figure as seen through the psychoanalytical lens of Freud. By using such Freudian concepts as narcissism, melancholy, and the death instinct, it focuses on the mother figure as she relates to the child or child figures, to the world, and to her own function as a mother and shows how Woolf, Lawrence, and Joyce cooperate with Freud in defining for mothers a central role in the modern self's investigations of its origins. For Woolf, Lawrence, and Joyce, the mother figure is something other than a specific person. Although the actual mother in the novels I study is physically out of reach, she is still present as a psychological projection of the self, so that even though the self can grow out of its biological need for the mother, it is impossible to grow out of the epistemological need for her. Thus, my analyses of the mother figure are concerned with what the mother is not, or should not be---since inheritance, history, and identity can emerge only if there is something beyond the mother as a specific person, some continuity leading from the mother outward to what is beyond her. And it is precisely this function of continuity, rather than the individual physical experience of having a child, that I define as motherhood proper. All three authors investigate the relationship of a specific female human being to motherhood, and the degree to which the mother as a concrete human being is more, less, or other than motherhood, as well as the ways in which motherhood is something more than the individual. The mother figure is ontologically dead/unavailable as origin for Woolf, physically dead/sexually unavailable for Lawrence, and historically dead/unavailable as inheritance for Joyce. For Woolf, there are doubts that the mother ever existed in the past (lack of continuity); for Lawrence, that she exists in the present (lack of contemporaneity); and for Joyce, that she will be reincarnated in the future (lack of chronology). But in all three of them, motherhood emerges as problematic and ambivalent, and, if its status and authority are restored, it is only through the struggle and growth of the individual self.

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Nilsson, Nina. "Gender Performativity and Motherhood in Coraline." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-160255.

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Coraline by Neil Gaiman has several characters who in many ways break gender norms. The main protagonist of the novel, Coraline, acts more in accordance with masculine gender norms, and the mother figures are mothers who do not fully conform to the traditional mother role. The purpose of this study is to look at how Coraline and the mother figures perform their gender, and in which ways this breaks with or aligns with traditional gender norms. The analytical approach is based on Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity, and on masculine and feminine gender schemas defined by John Stephens. For the analysis of motherhood, gender performativity has also been used, and works by Adrienne Rich and Einat Natalie Palkovich. This study shows that the protagonists challenge traditional gender role norms of masculinity and femininity, whereof motherhood is part. The study also shows that there is a lack of female role models for the young protagonist, and that acting according to masculine gender norms is desirable and necessary in the novel. But for the mothers, breaking gender norms is undesirable, dangerous, and even punished. A conclusion of the study is that even though Coraline appears to be a feminist novel, the underlying message is not entirely so.

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Osborne, Deidre Jean Juliet. "New women writers, motherhood and colonial ideology (1880-1903)." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270839.

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Mawoyo, Monica. "Things come together : rereading male representations of motherhood." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20185.

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This thesis presents a challenge to the approach that has been used to read representations of motherhood by male writers. The way of reading that has been used has led to accusations by female critics that the representations are jaundiced, a feeling that pervades the special issue of African Literature Today that focuses only on women's work. The introduction to the thesis outlines arguments that have been presented about the need to write from a point of view of experience, an approach that is meant to exclude male writers from writing about motherhood. The approach is also an attempt to prescribe to male writers how they should write about issues concerning women. It will be argued that the authority of experience argument as well as the accusation that male writers are insensitive in representations of women ends up limiting the way people read. The reading will be restricted to a realist reading that does not encourage an extrapolation of the deeper political meaning that may emerge out of male representations of motherhood. The thesis will stress that my reading of male writers' representations has drawn out diverse and complex meanings. To show the diverse ways in which males have used motherhood to produce some political undercurrent, five texts, ranging from precolonial to postcolonial Africa will be used. The analyses attempt to show using these texts by different male writers, that individual texts always exceed the limitations that can be caused by unimaginative reading.

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McElfresh, Darlene S. "Machiavellianism and Motherhood: Shakespeare's Inversion of Traditional Cultural Roles." Xavier University / OhioLINK, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1352478936.

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Weeda-Zuidersma, Jeannette. "Keeping mum : representations of motherhood in contemporary Australian literature - a fictocritical exploration." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0054.

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[Truncated abstract] This thesis argues that the non-representation and under-representation of mothering in contemporary Australian literature reflects a much wider cultural practice of silencing the mother-as-subject position and female experiences as a whole. The thesis encourages women writers to pay more attention to the subjective experiences of mothering, so that women’s writing, in particular writing on those aspects of women’s lives that are silenced, of which motherhood is one, can begin to refigure motherhood discourses. This thesis examines mother-as-subject from three perspectives: mothering as a corporeal experience, mothering as a psychological experience, and the articulations and silences of mothering-as-subject. It engages with feminist, postmodern and fictocritical theories in its discussion of motherhood as a discourse through these perspectives. In particular, the thesis employs the theoretical works of postmodern feminists Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva in this discussion . . . A fictional narrative also runs through the critical discussion on motherhood. This narrative, Catherine’s Story, gives a personal and immediate voice to the mother-as-subject perspective. In keeping with the nature of fictocriticism, strict textual boundaries between criticism and fiction are blurred. The two modes of writing interact and in the process inform and critique each other.

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Weeda-Zuidersma, Jeannette Weeda-Zuidersma Jeannette. "Keeping mum representations of motherhood in contemporary Australian literature : a fictocritical exploration /." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0054/.

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Books on the topic "Motherhood in literature"

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Sirimarco, Elizabeth. Motherhood. Vero Beach, Fla: Rourke Corp., 1991.

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Sabanpan-Yu, Hope. Institutionalizing motherhood in Cebuano literature. Cebu City, Philippines: University of San Carlos, 2011.

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Donna, Bassin, Honey Margaret, and Kaplan Meryle Mahrer 1947-, eds. Representations of motherhood. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.

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Kamberg, Mary-Lane. Teen pregnancy and motherhood. New York: Rosen Pub., 2013.

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Lazzari, Laura, and Nathalie Ségeral, eds. Trauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77407-3.

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Palko, Abigail L. Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60074-5.

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Skinner, Caroline. Representations of motherhood in post war children's literature. [Guildford]: [University of Surrey], 1996.

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Kamberg, Mary-Lane. Teen pregnancy and motherhood. New York: Rosen Pub., 2013.

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Rose, Mary Beth. Plotting Motherhood in Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Literature. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40454-7.

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1947-, Chemotti Saveria, and Veneto (Italy), eds. Madre de-genere: La maternità tra scelta, desiderio e destino. [Venice, Italy]: Regione del Veneto, 2009.

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Book chapters on the topic "Motherhood in literature"

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Borham-Puyal, Miriam. "Vulnerable Motherhood." In Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film, 49–62. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003435891-4.

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Hamm, Christine. "A Plea for Motherhood: Mothering and Writing in Contemporary Norwegian Literature." In Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing, 153–70. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17211-3_9.

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AbstractIn 2018 several well-established female Norwegian novelists—Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, Heidi Furre, Inger Bråtveit and Monica Isakstuen—produced fiction with mothers as narrators and protagonists. This chapter explores the issues that their texts address, as well as the narrative strategies they use. Although the novels look quite like popular motherhood memoirs where mothers describe their daily efforts to manage the situation at home, I show that the refined aesthetic texts by these Norwegian authors in fact contain what I call a plea for motherhood. Further, all four novels explore the relationship between writing and mothering. Ultimately, I argue that the novels by Skomsvold, Furre, Bråtveit and Isakstuen need to be read against the background of the situation in Norway, where it is taken for granted that women want a career, but motherhood is generally left without comment. The narrators in the 2018 novels seem motivated not only by the need to defend motherhood against feminist attacks on motherhood but also in resistance against other discourses, including political pro-natalism and literary-critical dismissal of motherhood as a literary subject. By merging fragments, essayistic pieces, memories and reflections, the novels point to a new way of delineating the multi-layered experience of motherhood.

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Schwartz-DuPre, Rae Lynn, and Stacey K. Sowards. "Donors and Disclosures: Rhetorical Explanations of Assisted Reproductive Technology and Parenthood in Children's Literature." In Refiguring Motherhood Beyond Biology, 81–93. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003311799-9.

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Cheallaigh, Gillian Ni. "Linda Lê’s Antigonal Refusal of Motherhood." In Women’s Lives in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature, 61–76. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40850-7_5.

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Björklund, Jenny. "Bad Mothers: Challenging Good Motherhood." In Maternal Abandonment and Queer Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Swedish Literature, 95–141. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72892-2_3.

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Fahlgren, Margaretha, and Anna Williams. "Contested Motherhood in Autobiographical Writing: Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti." In Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing, 135–51. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17211-3_8.

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AbstractThis chapter examines contemporary autobiographical narratives which explore the notion of motherhood as the central issue in women’s lives. These narratives have been important in offering alternative discourses and thereby broadening the concept of motherhood. This chapter discusses them in the light of motherhood studies and theories about matrilineal narratives in contemporary literature. Works by two highly acclaimed Canadian writers are at the center of our study: Rachel Cusk’s A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother (first published in 2001; 2008) and Sheila Heti’s Motherhood (2018). Both volumes convey an ambivalence toward motherhood and lean on emotions as well as intellectual argument. Theoretically, the point of departure is Toril Moi’s discussion about contemporary life writing as an “exercise of attention,” and furthermore the feminist examination of the definition of motherhood and mothering in a social context, from Adrienne Rich (1976) to Tina Miller (2005). The texts discussed in this chapter contest different “cultural scripts” (Miller)—discourses that affect societal and subjective views on motherhood and gender.

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Burns, E. Jane. "Raping Men: What’s Motherhood Got to Do With It?" In Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, 127–60. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-10448-9_5.

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Rose, Mary Beth. "Introduction: Plotting Motherhood in Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Literature." In Plotting Motherhood in Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Literature, 1–14. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40454-7_1.

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Lazzari, Laura, and Nathalie Ségeral. "Trauma and Recovery: New Challenges to Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture." In Trauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture, 1–10. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77407-3_1.

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Palko, Abigail L. "Introduction: Embryonic Beginnings." In Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature, 1–30. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60074-5_1.

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Conference papers on the topic "Motherhood in literature"

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Светлана Сергеевна, Алеева,. "ESTABLISHING THE ORIGIN OF CHILDREN IN SURROGATE MOTHERHOOD." In Технические и технологические системы в современных исследованиях: сборник статей всероссийской научной конференции (Сочи, Ноябрь 2022). Crossref, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.37539/221109.2022.77.46.002.

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В настоящее время, нормы, регламентирующие институт установления происхождения детей, рожденных суррогатной матерью, являются спорными и, естественно, в юридической литературе подвергаются критике. Currently, the norms regulating the institution of establishing the origin of children born to a surrogate mother are controversial and, of course, are criticized in the legal literature.

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"The Power and the Passion: Representation of Single Motherhood in Contemporary Australian Literature." In 3rd International Conference on Gender Research. ACPI, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.34190/igr.20.023.

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Lopes, Gabriela Huang, and Fabiana Lopes Custódio. "Reproductive rights of HIV-seropositive women: Literature Review." In III SEVEN INTERNATIONAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONGRESS. Seven Congress, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.56238/seveniiimulti2023-247.

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The history of the HIV virus in Brazil has led to the creation of a stigma towards the carriers of the virus, associating them with the idea of sexual promiscuity and the "anti-family" image. Thus, HIV-seropositive women are silenced from their plans regarding motherhood, which is much desired in the female universe, in view of the care plan focused on antiretroviral therapies, the use of condoms and the fight against vertical transmission. Therefore, there is a lack of access to their reproductive rights and to a more subjective care linked to the social exclusion of these women. Therefore, the objective of this study is to analyze the knowledge of HIV-seropositive women about their reproductive rights, in order to verify the preconceptional reality faced by them. This is a literature review study of the narrative type. This review was performed using the SciELO and PubMed databases as primary search sources, with articles published from 2002 to 2022, using the descriptors "HIV and maternity", "reproductive rights and HIV". For data analysis, themes related to the reproductive rights of HIV-seropositive women were identified. Thus, the results show that in the last 2 years there has been an increase in HIV infections in women of reproductive age, showing the need for action by health professionals focused on clarifying their reproductive rights. In addition, the advancement of prophylaxis measures, through the use of antiretroviral therapy during prenatal care, delivery and administration to the newborn, cesarean section and restriction of breastfeeding through breast milk, have increased the range of reproductive decisions of these women. However, the fear of prejudice, the possibility of exposure of the child, added to the neglect of the institutions resulting from the lack of reproductive planning during the routine follow-up of seropositive women, determine the withdrawal from maternity.

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Reports on the topic "Motherhood in literature"

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Bula Romero, Javier Alonso, María Angélica Arzuaga Salazar, and Clara Victoria Giraldo Mora. Nursing care in the process of transition to mothehood in obese women. INPLASY - International Platform of Registered Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Protocols, May 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2023.5.0014.

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Review question / Objective: To review and synthesize qualitative evidence related to the Nursing care in the process of transition to maternity in obese women. Condition being studied: The transition to motherhood is one of the most important in the life of many women, however, in women with obesity, it represents a critical, confusing moment and often contradictory. Nursing care should help this process occur in a positive way; However, the literature does not indicate a concept that accounts for the care of Nursing in the process of transition to maternity in women with obesity.

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