WombWor(l)ds: The Right to Parent Children in Safe and Healthy Environments
The third seminar in the series will address literature that addresses the right to parent children in safe and healthy environments. It will consider issues and perspectives such as climate change, postcolonial ecofeminism and dystopian narratives of reproduction.
“Negotiating Good Motherhood in Swedish Climate Change Fiction”, Jenny Björklund (Uppsala University);
“Reproduction, Colonial Legacies, and Climate Change in Maria Rosa Cutrufelli’s The Island of Mothers”, Daria Kozhanova (Duke University);
“Apocalyptic Pregnancy: Reproductive Justice and Climate Change in Contemporary Anglophone Dystopian Fiction”, Chiara Xausa, (University of Bologna)
Date of event: 25 November 2024