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“A smart, innovative, and robust collection that offers a unique and important contribution to Motherhood Studies in its emphasis on trauma […] an important and emergent subfield of motherhood studies and one yet to be represented or developed through an edited collection.” —Andrea O’Reilly, Professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, York University, Canada “This volume breaks new ground by using trauma studies to shed light on certain less-studied experiences of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood.” —Valerie Heffernan, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies and Head of the Maynooth University School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Ireland Trauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture repositions motherhood studies through the lens of trauma theory by exploring new challenges surrounding conception, pregnancy, and postpartum experiences. Chapters investigate nine case studies of motherhood trauma and recovery in literature and culture from the last twenty years by exploring their emotional consequences through the lens of trauma, resilience, and “working through” theories. Contributions engage with a transnational corpus drawn from the five continents and span topics as rarely discussed as pregnancy denial, surrogacy, voluntary or involuntary childlessness, racism and motherhood, carceral mothering practices, surrogacy, IVF, artificial wombs, and mothering through war, genocide, and migration. Accompanied by an online creative supplement, this volume deals with silenced aspects of embodied motherhood while enhancing a better understanding of the cathartic effects of storytelling. Laura Lazzari is a Scientific Collaborator at the Sasso Corbaro Foundation for the Medical Humanities, Switzerland, and a Research Scholar at the Catholic University of America, USA. She specializes in Motherhood Studies and the Medical Humanities and has published extensively on women’s writing in the Italian-speaking world. Nathalie Ségeral is Lecturer in French at the University of Sydney, Australia, and Associate Professor of French at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, USA. She specializes in Holocaust, genocide, memory and feminist studies, trauma theory, and the Francophone South Pacific.

Feminism and literature. --- Motherhood in literature. --- Psychic trauma in literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Literature --- Women authors --- Literature and feminism --- Medicine and the humanities. --- Sex. --- Health. --- Collective memory. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Feminist Literary Theory. --- Medical Humanities. --- Gender Studies. --- Gender and Health. --- Memory Studies. --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Humanities and medicine --- Humanities --- Personal health --- Wellness --- Medicine --- Physiology --- Diseases --- Holistic medicine --- Hygiene --- Well-being --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Philosophy. --- Theory

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This handbook offers a collection of scholarly essays that analyze questions of reproductive justice throughout its cultural representation in global literature and film. It offers analysis of specific texts carefully situated in their evolving historical, economic, and cultural contexts. Reproductive justice is taken beyond the American setting in which the theory and movement began; chapters apply concepts to international realities and literatures from different countries and cultures by covering diverse genres of cultural production, including film, television, YouTube documentaries, drama, short story, novel, memoir, and self-help literature. Each chapter analyzes texts from within the framework of reproductive justice in an interdisciplinary way, including English, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, and German language, literature and culture, comparative literature, film, South Asian fiction, Canadian theatre, writing, gender studies, Deaf studies, disability studies, global health and medical humanities, and sociology. Academics, graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in Literature, Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies, Motherhood Studies, Comparative Literature, History, Sociology, the Medical Humanities, Reproductive Justice, and Human Rights are the main audience of the volume. Beth Widmaier Capo is Edward Capps Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Illinois College, USA. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, USA. She is the author of Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction (2007) and co-edited Reproductive Rights Issues in Popular Media: International Perspectives (2017). Laura Lazzari holds a Ph.D. from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and a Master of Studies from Oxford, UK. A scholar in Motherhood Studies, she works at the Sasso Corbaro Foundation for the Medical Humanities, Switzerland. She was the recipient of a 2015-2016 AAUW International Postdoctoral Fellowship at Georgetown University, USA, and has lectured for several universities in Switzerland and the United States.

Reproductive rights. --- Women's rights in literature. --- Reproductive freedom --- Sexual rights --- Abortion --- Birth control --- Contraception --- Human reproduction --- Involuntary sterilization --- Literature --- Feminism and literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Medicine and the humanities. --- Law --- Ethics. --- Social medicine. --- Feminist Literary Theory. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Medical Humanities. --- Legal History. --- Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics. --- Health, Medicine and Society. --- Philosophy. --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- History. --- Medical care --- Medical sociology --- Medicine --- Medicine, Social --- Public health --- Public welfare --- Sociology --- Medical ethics --- Medical sociologists --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Legal history --- Humanities and medicine --- Humanities --- Literature and feminism --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Social aspects --- History and criticism --- Women authors --- Theory

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This handbook offers a collection of scholarly essays that analyze questions of reproductive justice throughout its cultural representation in global literature and film. It offers analysis of specific texts carefully situated in their evolving historical, economic, and cultural contexts. Reproductive justice is taken beyond the American setting in which the theory and movement began; chapters apply concepts to international realities and literatures from different countries and cultures by covering diverse genres of cultural production, including film, television, YouTube documentaries, drama, short story, novel, memoir, and self-help literature. Each chapter analyzes texts from within the framework of reproductive justice in an interdisciplinary way, including English, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, and German language, literature and culture, comparative literature, film, South Asian fiction, Canadian theatre, writing, gender studies, Deaf studies, disability studies, global health and medical humanities, and sociology. Academics, graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in Literature, Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, Cultural Studies, Motherhood Studies, Comparative Literature, History, Sociology, the Medical Humanities, Reproductive Justice, and Human Rights are the main audience of the volume. Beth Widmaier Capo is Edward Capps Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Illinois College, USA. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, USA. She is the author of Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction (2007) and co-edited Reproductive Rights Issues in Popular Media: International Perspectives (2017). Laura Lazzari holds a Ph.D. from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and a Master of Studies from Oxford, UK. A scholar in Motherhood Studies, she works at the Sasso Corbaro Foundation for the Medical Humanities, Switzerland. She was the recipient of a 2015-2016 AAUW International Postdoctoral Fellowship at Georgetown University, USA, and has lectured for several universities in Switzerland and the United States.

Philosophy --- General ethics --- Law --- Social medicine --- Literature --- History --- sociologie --- ethiek --- filosofie --- geschiedenis --- literatuur --- anno 1900-1999