WombWor(l)ds: The Right to Have a Child
This seminar will delve into the complexities of motherhood as portrayed in women’s writing, exploring narratives that address the right to have a child. In particular it will examine narratives about obstetric violence and labour-related trauma, infanticide as resistance to patriarchal motherhood and practices of communal storytelling in queer motherhood narratives.
“Childbirth and Reproductive Justice: Narratives of Trauma and Empowerment”, Laura Lazzari (The Sasso Corbaro Foundation for the Medical Humanities, Switzerland, and Georgetown University);
“Fantasizing Maternal Infanticide: Negotiation of Cultural Hybridity and Motherhood in Chinese American Literature”, Sarah Fang Tang (Wuhan Institute of Technology);
“The Ethics and Aesthetics of the Small: Interdependency in Contemporary Queer Motherhood Memoirs”, Alice Hall (University of York).
Date of event: 11 November 2024