Resumen
El objetivo de esta sección monográfica es analizar la compleja, y a menudo contradictoria, representación de la figura materna o de la experiencia de la maternidad en diversos formatos. La diferenciación conceptual entre la maternidad (motherhood) y su práctica (mothering) ha permitido diferenciar entre un referente frecuentemente opresor y otro con un enorme potencial liberador que, además, permite establecer vínculos entre las propias mujeres. La experiencia de las madres es muy diversa y corresponde tanto a estereotipos como a visiones alternativas que divergen de estos. La maternidad a tiempo completo de la Edad Moderna otorga poder a la madre, pero al tiempo justifica la regulación de su actividad. Esto determina que se considere “malas” madres a aquellas que no se circunscriben a lo socialmente establecido. En el marco de este debate, la literatura puede convertirse en un instrumento de transformación social, en tanto en cuanto represente elementos novedosos, divergentes o rupturistas. Así se pone de manifiesto en las obras que analiza esta sección monográfica al que este artículo sirve de introducción y que han sido escritas por autoras de geografías y épocas diversas.
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Åström, Berit. 2017. The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination. Missing, Presumed Dead. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Braidotti, Rosi. 1994. Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory. Nueva York: Columbia University Press.
Borham-Puyal, Miriam. 2024. “Vulnerable Motherhood: The Precarious Mother in Unlikely Angel (2005) and Captive (2015).” Embodied Vulnerabilities in Literature and Film, editado por Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández y Miriam Fernández-Santiago, 49-62. Nueva York y Londres: Routledge.
Buerger, Shelley. 2017. “The beak that grips: maternal indifference, ambivalence and the abject in The Babadook.” Studies in Australian Cinema 11(1): 33-44. dx.doi.org/10.1080/17503175.2017.1308903
Carpenter, Ginette. 2017. “Mothers and Others.” Women and the Gothic. An Edinburgh Companion, editado por Avril Horner y Sue Zlosnik, 46-59. Edimburgo: Edinburgh University Press.
Davidoff, Leonore, y Catherine Hall. 2002. Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class. 1780-1850. Londres y Nueva York: Routledge.
DiQuinzo, Patrice. 1999. The Impossibility of Motherhood. Feminism, Individualism, and the Problem of Mothering. Nueva York y Londres: Routledge.
Faulkner, Sandra L. 2014. “Bad Mom(my) Litany: Spanking Cultural Myths of Middle-Class Motherhood.” Cultural Studies. Critical Methodologies 14(2): 138-146. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708613512270
Feasey, Rebecca. 2017. “Good, Bad or Just Good Enough: Representations of Motherhood and the Maternal Role on the Small Screen.” Studies in the Maternal 9(1): 1-31. doi.org/10.16995/sim.234
Francus, Marilyn. 2017. “The Lady Vanishes: The Rise of the Spectral Mother.” The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination. Missing, Presumed Dead, editado por Berit Åström, 25-45. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Francus, Marilyn. 2012. Monstruous Motherhood. 18th-Century Culture and the Ideology of Domesticity. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.
Goodwin, Susan y Kate E. Huppatz. 2010. “The Good Mother in Theory and Research: an Overview.” The Good Mother: Contemporary Motherhoods in Australia, editado por S. Goodwin y K.E. Huppatz, 1-24. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Jeremiah, Emily. 2006. “Motherhood to Mothering and Beyond: Maternity in Recent Feminist Thought.” Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering 8(1-2): 21-33.
Littler, Jo. 2013. “The rise of the ‘yummy mummy’: popular conservatism and the neoliberal maternal in contemporary British culture.” Communication, Culture and Critique 6(2): 227-243. doi:10.1111/cccr.12010.
McRobbie, Angela. 2013. “Feminism, the Family and the New ‘Mediated’ Maternalism.” New Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics 80-81: 119-137. doi.org/10.3898/newF.80/81.07.2013
O’Reilly, Andrea. 2019. “Matricentric Feminism: A Feminism for Mothers”. Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement 10 (1/2): 13-26. https://jarm.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/jarm/article/view/40551.
Rich, Adrienne. 1976. Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution. Nueva York: Norton.
Santos, Cristina. 2017. Unbecoming Female Monsters. Witches, Vampires, and Virgins. Maryland: Lexington Books.
Umansky, Lauri. 1996. Motherhood Reconceived. Feminism and the Legacies of the Sixties. Nueva York y Londres: New York University Press.
Walton, Priscilla L. y Manina Jones. 1999. Detective Agency: Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press.