Developing a new Network of Researchers on Contemporary European Motherhood

Informations projet

MotherNet

N° de convention de subvention: 952366

DOI

10.3030/952366

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 15 Juin 2020

Date de début 1 Janvier 2021

Date de fin 30 Juin 2024

Financé au titre de

• Twinning of research institutions

Coût total

€ 898 178,75

Contribution de l’UE

€ 898 178,75

Coordonné par

VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETAS
Lithuania

CORDIS fournit des liens vers les livrables publics et les publications des projets HORIZON.

Les liens vers les livrables et les publications des projets du 7e PC, ainsi que les liens vers certains types de résultats spécifiques tels que les jeux de données et les logiciels, sont récupérés dynamiquement sur OpenAIRE .

Livrables

Documents, reports (4)

Programme for the MotherNet Research Colloquium for Year 1

This document is the programme of events for the months research colloquium that will take place at VU in 2021

Programme for the Midterm Research Workshop

This document is the programme of the research workshop that will take place at VU in early 2022

Programme for the MotherNet Research Colloquium for Year 3-4

This document is the programme of events for the months research colloquium that will take place at VU in 2023-2024.

Programme for the MotherNet Research Colloquium for Year 2

This document is the programme of events for the months research colloquium that will take place at VU in 2022.

Other (2)

MotherNet social media accounts

These social media accounts will be used to promote research events and public events and to summarise research findings that might be of interest to the general public

MotherNet website

The website will be to promote MotherNet academic and nonacademic events in all three partner universities and to make available any noncopyrighted publications associated with the project

Publications

Book chapters (17)

Contested Motherhood in Autobiographical Writing: Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti

Auteurs: Margaretha Fahlgren, Anna Williams
Publié dans: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing, 2024, Page(s) 135-151
Éditeur: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17211-3_8

Orality/Aurality and Voice of the Voiceless Mother in Abla Farhoud’s Happiness Has a Slippery Tail

Auteurs: Eglė Kačkutė
Publié dans: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing, 2023, Page(s) 77-92
Éditeur: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17211-3_5

One Hand Clapping: The Loneliness of Motherhood in Lucia Berlin’s “Tiger Bites”

Auteurs: Lisa Grahn
Publié dans: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing, 2023, Page(s) 17-31
Éditeur: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17211-3_2

Le cinesi de Manuel García y Metastasio en el siglo XXI: el mito de Andrómaca como paradigma de viuda y madre virtuosa en una ópera de salón neoclásica y orientalizante

Auteurs: Maria Sebastià Sáez
Publié dans: L’Orient a la tradició literària grecollatina i la seua recepció, Numéro 2021, 2021, Page(s) 195-209, ISBN 9788412020977
Éditeur: Reus

International Responses to Regretting Motherhood

Auteurs: Valerie Heffernan, Katherine Stone
Publié dans: Women’s Lived Experiences of the Gender Gap - Gender Inequalities from Multiple Global Perspectives, 2021, Page(s) 121-133, ISBN 978-981-16-1173-5
Éditeur: Springer Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-1174-2_11

Reclaiming Non-Motherhood: Abjection, Laughter and Failure in Twenty-First-Century Swedish Narratives of Childlessness

Auteurs: Jenny Björklund
Publié dans: Negotiating Non-Motherhood: Representations, Perceptions, and Experiences, 2025, Page(s) 21-40, ISBN 978-3-031-66696-4
Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-66697-1_2

The Incomplete Mother as Non-mother: A Study of Secondary Infertility in Helen Davies’ More Love to Give

Auteurs: Julie Rodgers
Publié dans: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, Negotiating Non-Motherhood, 2024, Page(s) 103-120
Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-66697-1_6

Childless Women’s Relationships with Children of Others: Narratives from Two Generations in Lithuania

Auteurs: Lina Šumskaitė, Margarita Gedvilaitė-Kordušienė
Publié dans: Close Relations, Numéro 2021, 2021, Page(s) 171–192, ISBN 978-981-16-0791-2
Éditeur: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-0792-9_11

Struggling to Become a Mother: Literary Representations of Involuntary Childlessness

Auteurs: Jenny Björklund
Publié dans: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing, 2023, Page(s) 55-75
Éditeur: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17211-3_4

The (M)other’s Voice: Representations of Motherhood in Contemporary Swiss Writing by Women

Auteurs: Valerie Heffernan
Publié dans: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing, 2023, Page(s) 115-134
Éditeur: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17211-3_7

Conceptualising Non-Motherhood

Auteurs: Jenny Björklund, Julie Rodgers
Publié dans: Negotiating Non-Motherhood. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, 2025, Page(s) 1-20, ISBN 978-3-031-66696-4
Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-66697-1_1

Choosing Childlessness: Familial and National Acts of Resistance in Preti Taneja’s We That Are Young (2017)

Auteurs: Orlagh Woods
Publié dans: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, Negotiating Non-Motherhood, 2024, Page(s) 177-196
Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-66697-1_10

Non-Motherhood and the Narrative of the Self in Nuria Labari’s The Best Mother of the World

Auteurs: Dovilė Kuzminskaitė
Publié dans: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, Negotiating Non-Motherhood, 2024, Page(s) 41-59
Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-66697-1_3

Alternative Happy Endings? A Qualitative Study of Non-Mothers in Lithuania

Auteurs: Lina Šumskaitė
Publié dans: Negotiating Non-Motherhood. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life., 2025, Page(s) 81-101, ISBN 978-3-031-66696-4
Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-66697-1_5

Infertility, Desire for Motherhood and Surrogacy in Miguel de Unamuno’s Dos madres

Auteurs: María Sebastià-Sáez
Publié dans: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, Negotiating Non-Motherhood, 2024, Page(s) 139-156
Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-66697-1_8

Ambivalent Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering: From Normal and Natural to Not-at-all

Auteurs: Helena Wahlström Henriksson, Anna Williams, Margaretha Fahlgren
Publié dans: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing, 2023, Page(s) 1-15
Éditeur: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17211-3_1

Adapting (to) Non-Motherhood: Ulrike Kofler’s Film What We Wanted (2020)

Auteurs: Valerie Heffernan
Publié dans: Negotiating Non-Motherhood. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, 2025, Page(s) 221-238, ISBN 978-3-031-66696-4
Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-66697-1_12

Peer reviewed articles (25)

El mito del sacrificio de Ifigenia en el film Sophie’s Choice: la dicotomía moral de una madre en el contexto del Holocausto

Auteurs: Maria Sebastià Sáez
Publié dans: Studia Philologica Valentina, Numéro 2021, 2021, Page(s) 641-647, ISSN 1135-9560
Éditeur: STVDIA PHILOLOGICA VALENTINA
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6811808

Violence of Adult Sons Against Mothers in the Context of Matricide

Auteurs: Ilona Michailovič, Lina Šumskaitė
Publié dans: Filosofija. Sociologija, Numéro 35, 2024, ISSN 0235-7186
Éditeur: Lithuanian Academy of Sciences Publishers
DOI: 10.6001/fil-soc.2024.35.2priedas.special-issue.3

Проблема представления материнства в русской литературе XIX века

Auteurs: Дагне Бержайте
Publié dans: SlavVaria, Numéro 2, 2022, ISSN 2786-2550
Éditeur: Pécs: PTE Szlav. Intéz, 2021-
DOI: 10.15170/sv.1/2022.85

The Role of the Mother in Lithuanian Heritage Language Maintenance

Auteurs: Meilutė Ramonienė, Jogilė Teresa Ramonaitė
Publié dans: Languages, Numéro 9, 2024, Page(s) 241, ISSN 2226-471X
Éditeur: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/languages9070241

Subjectivities of highly skilled lead, tied, and equal migrant mothers

Auteurs: Eglė Kačkutė
Publié dans: Gender, Work & Organization, 2024, ISSN 0968-6673
Éditeur: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gwao.13166

Procne in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

Auteurs: Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed
Publié dans: Classical Receptions Journal, Numéro 2022, 2021, ISSN 1759-5134
Éditeur: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/crj/clab002

“My Work Is to Show That It’s So Much More Beautiful When You Can Mix”: An Interview With Kim Thúy

Auteurs: Eglė Kačkutė, Valerie Heffernan
Publié dans: Contemporary Women's Writing, Numéro 18, 2025, Page(s) 20-31, ISSN 1754-1484
Éditeur: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpae029

Introduction to “Motherhood, Subjectivity, and Work”

Auteurs: Anne O'Brien, Eglė Kačkutė, Marian Crowley‐Henry
Publié dans: Gender, Work & Organization, 2025, ISSN 0968-6673
Éditeur: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gwao.13255

Astrid Lindgren and the Nightingale’s Song

Auteurs: Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed
Publié dans: Barnboken, 2024, ISSN 2000-4389
Éditeur: The Swedish Institute for Children's Books
DOI: 10.14811/clr.v47.933

Creative and crime scene photography: staged patricide and matricide as screen memories in Aida Chehrehgosha’s<i>To Mom, Dad and My Two Brothers</i>

Auteurs: Atėnė Mendelytė
Publié dans: photographies, Numéro 15, 2023, Page(s) 167-186, ISSN 1754-0763
Éditeur: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/17540763.2022.2060291

The Migrant Mother’s Silence in Her Mother Tongue as a Mothering Strategy

Auteurs: Eglė Kačkutė
Publié dans: Contemporary Women's Writing, Numéro 18, 2025, Page(s) 128-148, ISSN 1754-1484
Éditeur: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpae027

“On ne peut rien contre une fille qui rêve”: Teenage Pregnancy as Maternal Empowerment or Maternal Entrapment in 17 Filles

Auteurs: Julie Rodgers, Ciara Gorman
Publié dans: Modern Languages Open, Numéro 2023, 2023, ISSN 2052-5397
Éditeur: Liverpool University Press
DOI: 10.3828/mlo.v0i0.456

Zwei Sprachen gleichzeitig? Nein, das schaff’ ich nicht: A Lithuanian-German Boy’s Journey to Active Bilingualism

Auteurs: Inga Hilbig
Publié dans: Philologia Estonica Tallinnensis, 2022, ISSN 2504-6616
Éditeur: Kirjastaja
DOI: 10.22601/pet.2022.07.05

The motherly gaze in Aslaug Holm’s <i>Brothers</i> ( <i>Brødre</i> , 2015)

Auteurs: Atėnė Mendelytė
Publié dans: Studies in European Cinema, 2024, Page(s) 1-15, ISSN 1741-1548
Éditeur: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/17411548.2024.2319406

Travelling Thai Surrogate Mothers: Required and Restricted Mobility in Transnational Surrogacy

Auteurs: Elina Nilsson
Publié dans: Medical Anthropology, Numéro 43, 2025, Page(s) 734-747, ISSN 0145-9740
Éditeur: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2424364

Resisting silence and stigma: Mothering and sex work

Auteurs: Kathryn McGarry, Irma Kondrataitė
Publié dans: Gender, Work &amp; Organization, 2024, ISSN 0968-6673
Éditeur: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gwao.13164

The subjectivity load: Negotiating the internalization of “mother” and “creative worker” identities in creative industries

Auteurs: Anne O’ Brien
Publié dans: Gender, Work &amp; Organization, 2024, ISSN 0968-6673
Éditeur: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gwao.13157

Negotiating Good Parenthood in Swedish Climate Change Fiction

Auteurs: Jenny Björklund
Publié dans: NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 2024, Page(s) 1-13, ISSN 0803-8740
Éditeur: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/08038740.2024.2429634

The Ethics of Motherhood in Plutarch's Parallel Lives

Auteurs: Schottenius Cullhed, S., & Juchnevičienė, N.
Publié dans: Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, Numéro 63(4), 2023, Page(s) 401–421, ISSN 2159-3159
Éditeur: Duke University Press

‘It wasn’t what I was suited for’: regretful mothers negotiating their reproductive decision and mother role

Auteurs: Maja Bodin
Publié dans: Medical Humanities, Numéro 50, 2024, Page(s) 70-76, ISSN 1468-215X
Éditeur: BMJ Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2023-012717

Introduction: Motherhood, Mobility, Migration in Twenty-First-Century Women’s Writing

Auteurs: Eglė Kačkutė, Valerie Heffernan
Publié dans: Contemporary Women's Writing, Numéro 18, 2025, Page(s) 1-19, ISSN 1754-1484
Éditeur: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpae032

Thought Experiments in Video Games: Exploring the (Un)Ethics of Motherhood in Frictional Games’ Amnesia: Rebirth

Auteurs: Atėnė Mendelytė
Publié dans: Games and Culture, Numéro 19, 2023, Page(s) 38-54, ISSN 1555-4120
Éditeur: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/15554120231153715

Still waters run deep: The invisible life of working mothers with disabilities in Lithuania

Auteurs: Violeta Gevorgianienė, Eglė Šumskienė, Ciara Bradley
Publié dans: Qualitative Social Work, Numéro 2022, 2022, ISSN 1741-3117
Éditeur: SAGE Publishing
DOI: 10.1177/14733250221091995

“I never thought about how much of a juggle it would be”: motherhood and work in contemporary Lithuanian and Irish creative industries

Auteurs: Sarah Arnold, Anne O’Brien, Lina Kaminskaitė-Jančorienė, Jelena Šalaj
Publié dans: Feminist Media Studies, 2024, Page(s) 1-17, ISSN 1468-0777
Éditeur: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2024.2359494

Combining motherhood and work in the creative industries: Mothers have the problem

Auteurs: Anne O’Brien, Sarah Arnold
Publié dans: Media, Culture &amp; Society, 2024, ISSN 0163-4437
Éditeur: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/01634437241229327

Other (1)

Ganarse la vida. Género y trabajo a través de los siglos

Auteurs: Egle Kackute; Valerie Heffernan
Publié dans: 2022
Éditeur: Dykinson

Conference proceedings (1)

Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Women with Disabilities: Some Insights from the UNCRPD Session in September 2023

Auteurs: Eglė Šumskienė
Publié dans: Proceedings of the 3rd AIDRAN Biennial Conference: International Conference on Disability Rights, ICDR 2023, 21– 23 November 2023, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2024
Éditeur: EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.21-11-2023.2352625