Native Mothers, Colonial State and the Dreams of Nation-building: Legislating Maternity Benefits in Late Colonial India

Prarthana Dutta

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

Hybrid Citizenship Of Migrant Mothers In Sweden: When Real Life Meets Ideological Expectations

Soheyla Yazdanpanah

Södertörn University, Sweden

“Suddenly They Are Grown Up, Move Out And You Ask Yourself: What Now?”. A Life Course Perspective On Motherhood

Marie-Kristin Döbler

University of Tübingen, Germany

Another Burden For Mothers, One Less Responsibility for Governments: How The Press in Brazil, The United States and UK Portrays Maternal Burnout

Mariana Della Barba

PUC-SP Brazil (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo), Brazil

Muslim Mothering

Sofia Ahmed

York university, Canada

A New Motherhood: Does Surrogacy End Or Reinforce Patriarchy?

Elisa Baiocco

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

"I Turned My Pen Inward to Map the Shifting Tectonic Plates of My Life": Matricentric Feminism in Recent Graphic Memoirs

Carolina Toscano

Saint Louis University (Madrid Campus), Spain

Narratives of Motherhood: Georges de Peyrebrune's Victoire la Rouge as a Counterpoint to Natalist Ideals

Marie Martine

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Experience and Exploration: Mother Anyway and MotherNet

Margaretha Fahlgren, Anna Williams

Uppsala University, Sweden

"To Change the World, We Must First Change the Way the Babies Are Being Born": Differences and Similarities Within Childbirth Activism in Europe

Dulce Morgado Neves

CIES-Iscte, Portugal

The Never Good Enough Mother: Escaping Motherhood in Two Contemporary Novels

Lori Arnold

University of Houston Clear Lake, United States of America

Of Mice And Women: Feral Motherhood In David Huebert’s “Cruelty”

Rūta Šlapkauskaitė

Vilnius University, Lithuania

The Monstrous Mother: Media and Artistic Representation in French and Francophone Culture

Julie Rodgers¹, Vitalija Kazlauskiene²

1: Maynooth University; 2: Vilnius University

“We Are Seriously Two Equals”: Lesbian Mothers-To-Be Reason About In/Equalities And Sharing Motherhood In Sweden

Madeleine Eriksson Kirsch

Stockholm University, Sweden

Alt-Maternalism: Exploring Expressions of (White) Maternal Power in Digital Influencer Cultures

Ashley Ann Mattheis

Dublin City University, Ireland

Mum, Work in IT ! How to Enter The Game And Not Fall Out Of It

Agnieszka Karoń

Jagiellonian University, Poland

Mother, Nature: Exploring the Intersection of Motherhood and Nature in Recent Screen Media

Olivia Badoi

Saint Luis University Madrid, Spain

“I Never Thought About How Much of a Juggle it Would Be”: Motherhood and Work in Contemporary Lithuanian and Irish Creative Industries

Anne O' Brien¹, Sarah Arnold¹, Jelena Šalaj², Lina Kaminskaite³

1: Maynooth University, Ireland; 2: Vilnius University, Lithuania; 3: Department of History and Theory of Art, LMTA in Lithuania.

The Ethics of Motherhood in Plutarch's Parallel Lives: Gender, Virtue, and Exemplary Culture in Ancient Greece and Rome

Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed¹, Nijolė Juchnevičienė²

1: Uppsala University, Sweden; 2: Vilnius University, Lithuania

Motherhood In The Work Of Marie NDiaye: Modernising Medea and Madonna

Pauline Eaton

Independent, United Kingdom

Vulnerability and Interdependence: Matrifocal Narratives in Contemporary Latvian Literature

Zita Kārkla

Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of University of Latvia, Latvia

Motherhood and the Transactional Body in the Modern Romanian Novel

Ioana Moroșan

University of Bucharest, Romania