Words Fail: Textual Encounters with Ob/Gyn Violence

Loic Bourdeau

Maynooth University, Ireland

Women’s Birth Narratives in the Hungarian Obstetric Care. Introduction to a Qualitative Study

Orsolya Udvari

Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary

Pavee Mothering during Covid-19

Ciara Bradley

Maynooth University, Ireland

Transfiguring ‘Negative Spaces’: Encounters With Motherhood In Contexts Of Loss And Absence

Claire Flahavan

National Maternity Hospital, Ireland

Mothers’ Resistance Against ”Traditional Values” And The Russian War On Ukraine

Yulia Gradskova

Södertörn University, Sweden

Mothers We Care For And Mothers We Care About: Maternal Activism In Lithuania

Ieva Bisigirskaitė

Vilnius University, Lithuania

Reframing Violence Against Women as Violence Against Motherhood and Mothering

Jolanta Malažinskienė

Vilnius University, Lithuania

Solo Motherhood By Choice – Literature and Policy

Christie Louise Margrave

University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

The Official Discourse and Social Construction of Motherhood and the Irish Workhouse System of the Late-Nineteenth-Century.

Judy Bolger

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Reclaiming Non-Motherhood: Representations of Childlessness in Twenty-First-Century Swedish Literature

Jenny Björklund

Uppsala University, Sweden

Exploring Non-motherhood in Spanish Graphic Narratives: No quiero ser mamá (Irene Olmo 2020)

Mercedes Carbayo Abengozar

Maynooth University, Ireland

Non-Motherhood and Surrogacy in Miguel de Unamuno’s Dos madres

María Sebastià-Sáez

Vilnius University, Lithuania

“Je Ne Veux Pas Enfanter Et C’est Mon Droit”: Radical Non-motherhood In Amandine Gay’s Une Poupée en Chocolat (2021)

Jasmine Dee Cooper

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Non-motherhood – An Alternative ‘Happy Life’? A Qualitative Study of Reproductive Age Women in Lithuania

Lina Šumskaitė

Vilnius University, Lithuania

Why the Ideology of Intensive Mothering is Oppressive?

Živilė Oertelė

Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, Lithuania

Many Faces of Intensive Motherhood: Mothering Practices and Ideologies of Czech Mothers

Hana Hašková, Radka Dudová

Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

The Adverse Impact of the Lithuanian Motherhood Script on Migrant Mothers’ Well-being and Harmonious Bilingualism

Inga Hilbig, Eglė Kačkutė, Vitalija Kazlauskienė

Vilnius University, Lithuania

Motherhood Under Attack: How The Archetype Of The ‘Good Mother’ Shapes Responses To Child-To-Mother Abuse

Laura Louise Rite

University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Imagining motherhood in a post-apocalyptic world: reifying and resisting normative motherhood in the climate-change novels Clean Air by Sarah Blake and The New Wilderness by Diane Cook

Andrea O'Reilly

York University, Canada

"Performing (M)others - The Performative Potential to Queer the Socially Idealized Image of the Mother"

Linda Luv

University of Arts Linz, Austria

The Modern Mother Is A Superwoman. Complex Definitions And Conflicting Norms Of Good Motherhood In Belgium

Laëtitia Marie Dominique Bideau

University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium

Spectral Mothers and Daughters of Contemporary Trauma Fiction

Daniela Johanna Lillhannus

Uppsala University, Sweden

Experiences of Mothers of Preterm Babies from the Medical Humanities Perspective: Presentation of the Study Design

Rūta Morkūnienė¹, Diana Ramašauskaitė², Atėnė Mendelytė³

1: Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Lithuania; 2: Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Lithuania; 3: Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University, Lithuania

Solomon Judges Medea: Experiences Of Mothers with Intellectual Disabilities Whose Children Were Removed

Eglė Šumskienė, Violeta Gevorgianienė

Vilnius University, Lithuania

Exploring Feminist Mothering Through The Phenomenological Reflections Of Urban Indian Mothers

Ketoki Mazumdar

FLAME University, India

Socially Distributed Cognition and the Ethics of Motherhood in Contemporary French Autotheory: Shumona Sinha and Vanessa Springora

Diana Mistreanu

University of Passau, Germany

Writings on the Self in Movement: Mothers De(con)structed in Nelly Arcan’s, Sophie Calle’s and Emma Marsante’s Works

Vera Gajiu

University of Torino

There is No Such Thing as Maternal Instinct: Unwanted Pregnancy, Abandonment and Alienation in Fatou Diome’s The Belly of the Atlantic and Sedi Adeniran’s Imagine This

Aminat Emma Badmus

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia