Developing a new Network of Researchers on Contemporary European Motherhood

Informazioni relative al progetto

MotherNet

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 952366

DOI

10.3030/952366

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 15 Giugno 2020

Data di avvio 1 Gennaio 2021

Data di completamento 30 Giugno 2024

Finanziato da

• Twinning of research institutions

Costo totale

€ 898 178,75

Contributo UE

€ 898 178,75

Coordinato da

VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETAS
Lithuania

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Risultati finali

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

Pubblicazioni

Book chapters (17)

Contested Motherhood in Autobiographical Writing: Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti

Autori: Margaretha Fahlgren, Anna Williams
Pubblicato in: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing, 2024, Pagina/e 135-151
Editore: 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

Autori: Eglė Kačkutė
Pubblicato in: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing, 2023, Pagina/e 77-92
Editore: 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”

Autori: Lisa Grahn
Pubblicato in: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing, 2023, Pagina/e 17-31
Editore: 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

Autori: Maria Sebastià Sáez
Pubblicato in: L’Orient a la tradició literària grecollatina i la seua recepció, Numero 2021, 2021, Pagina/e 195-209, ISBN 9788412020977
Editore: Reus

International Responses to Regretting Motherhood

Autori: Valerie Heffernan, Katherine Stone
Pubblicato in: Women’s Lived Experiences of the Gender Gap - Gender Inequalities from Multiple Global Perspectives, 2021, Pagina/e 121-133, ISBN 978-981-16-1173-5
Editore: 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

Autori: Jenny Björklund
Pubblicato in: Negotiating Non-Motherhood: Representations, Perceptions, and Experiences, 2025, Pagina/e 21-40, ISBN 978-3-031-66696-4
Editore: 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

Autori: Julie Rodgers
Pubblicato in: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, Negotiating Non-Motherhood, 2024, Pagina/e 103-120
Editore: 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

Autori: Lina Šumskaitė, Margarita Gedvilaitė-Kordušienė
Pubblicato in: Close Relations, Numero 2021, 2021, Pagina/e 171–192, ISBN 978-981-16-0791-2
Editore: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-0792-9_11

Struggling to Become a Mother: Literary Representations of Involuntary Childlessness

Autori: Jenny Björklund
Pubblicato in: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing, 2023, Pagina/e 55-75
Editore: 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

Autori: Valerie Heffernan
Pubblicato in: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing, 2023, Pagina/e 115-134
Editore: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17211-3_7

Conceptualising Non-Motherhood

Autori: Jenny Björklund, Julie Rodgers
Pubblicato in: Negotiating Non-Motherhood. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, 2025, Pagina/e 1-20, ISBN 978-3-031-66696-4
Editore: 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)

Autori: Orlagh Woods
Pubblicato in: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, Negotiating Non-Motherhood, 2024, Pagina/e 177-196
Editore: 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

Autori: Dovilė Kuzminskaitė
Pubblicato in: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, Negotiating Non-Motherhood, 2024, Pagina/e 41-59
Editore: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-66697-1_3

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

Autori: Lina Šumskaitė
Pubblicato in: Negotiating Non-Motherhood. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life., 2025, Pagina/e 81-101, ISBN 978-3-031-66696-4
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-66697-1_5

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

Autori: María Sebastià-Sáez
Pubblicato in: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, Negotiating Non-Motherhood, 2024, Pagina/e 139-156
Editore: 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

Autori: Helena Wahlström Henriksson, Anna Williams, Margaretha Fahlgren
Pubblicato in: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing, 2023, Pagina/e 1-15
Editore: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17211-3_1

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

Autori: Valerie Heffernan
Pubblicato in: Negotiating Non-Motherhood. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, 2025, Pagina/e 221-238, ISBN 978-3-031-66696-4
Editore: 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

Autori: Maria Sebastià Sáez
Pubblicato in: Studia Philologica Valentina, Numero 2021, 2021, Pagina/e 641-647, ISSN 1135-9560
Editore: STVDIA PHILOLOGICA VALENTINA
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6811808

Violence of Adult Sons Against Mothers in the Context of Matricide

Autori: Ilona Michailovič, Lina Šumskaitė
Pubblicato in: Filosofija. Sociologija, Numero 35, 2024, ISSN 0235-7186
Editore: Lithuanian Academy of Sciences Publishers
DOI: 10.6001/fil-soc.2024.35.2priedas.special-issue.3

Проблема представления материнства в русской литературе XIX века

Autori: Дагне Бержайте
Pubblicato in: SlavVaria, Numero 2, 2022, ISSN 2786-2550
Editore: Pécs: PTE Szlav. Intéz, 2021-
DOI: 10.15170/sv.1/2022.85

The Role of the Mother in Lithuanian Heritage Language Maintenance

Autori: Meilutė Ramonienė, Jogilė Teresa Ramonaitė
Pubblicato in: Languages, Numero 9, 2024, Pagina/e 241, ISSN 2226-471X
Editore: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/languages9070241

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

Autori: Eglė Kačkutė
Pubblicato in: Gender, Work & Organization, 2024, ISSN 0968-6673
Editore: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gwao.13166

Procne in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

Autori: Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed
Pubblicato in: Classical Receptions Journal, Numero 2022, 2021, ISSN 1759-5134
Editore: 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

Autori: Eglė Kačkutė, Valerie Heffernan
Pubblicato in: Contemporary Women's Writing, Numero 18, 2025, Pagina/e 20-31, ISSN 1754-1484
Editore: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpae029

Introduction to “Motherhood, Subjectivity, and Work”

Autori: Anne O'Brien, Eglė Kačkutė, Marian Crowley‐Henry
Pubblicato in: Gender, Work & Organization, 2025, ISSN 0968-6673
Editore: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gwao.13255

Astrid Lindgren and the Nightingale’s Song

Autori: Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed
Pubblicato in: Barnboken, 2024, ISSN 2000-4389
Editore: 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>

Autori: Atėnė Mendelytė
Pubblicato in: photographies, Numero 15, 2023, Pagina/e 167-186, ISSN 1754-0763
Editore: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/17540763.2022.2060291

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

Autori: Eglė Kačkutė
Pubblicato in: Contemporary Women's Writing, Numero 18, 2025, Pagina/e 128-148, ISSN 1754-1484
Editore: 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

Autori: Julie Rodgers, Ciara Gorman
Pubblicato in: Modern Languages Open, Numero 2023, 2023, ISSN 2052-5397
Editore: 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

Autori: Inga Hilbig
Pubblicato in: Philologia Estonica Tallinnensis, 2022, ISSN 2504-6616
Editore: Kirjastaja
DOI: 10.22601/pet.2022.07.05

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

Autori: Atėnė Mendelytė
Pubblicato in: Studies in European Cinema, 2024, Pagina/e 1-15, ISSN 1741-1548
Editore: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/17411548.2024.2319406

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

Autori: Elina Nilsson
Pubblicato in: Medical Anthropology, Numero 43, 2025, Pagina/e 734-747, ISSN 0145-9740
Editore: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2424364

Resisting silence and stigma: Mothering and sex work

Autori: Kathryn McGarry, Irma Kondrataitė
Pubblicato in: Gender, Work &amp; Organization, 2024, ISSN 0968-6673
Editore: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gwao.13164

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

Autori: Anne O’ Brien
Pubblicato in: Gender, Work &amp; Organization, 2024, ISSN 0968-6673
Editore: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gwao.13157

Negotiating Good Parenthood in Swedish Climate Change Fiction

Autori: Jenny Björklund
Pubblicato in: NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 2024, Pagina/e 1-13, ISSN 0803-8740
Editore: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/08038740.2024.2429634

The Ethics of Motherhood in Plutarch's Parallel Lives

Autori: Schottenius Cullhed, S., & Juchnevičienė, N.
Pubblicato in: Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, Numero 63(4), 2023, Pagina/e 401–421, ISSN 2159-3159
Editore: Duke University Press

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

Autori: Maja Bodin
Pubblicato in: Medical Humanities, Numero 50, 2024, Pagina/e 70-76, ISSN 1468-215X
Editore: BMJ Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2023-012717

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

Autori: Eglė Kačkutė, Valerie Heffernan
Pubblicato in: Contemporary Women's Writing, Numero 18, 2025, Pagina/e 1-19, ISSN 1754-1484
Editore: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpae032

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

Autori: Atėnė Mendelytė
Pubblicato in: Games and Culture, Numero 19, 2023, Pagina/e 38-54, ISSN 1555-4120
Editore: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/15554120231153715

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

Autori: Violeta Gevorgianienė, Eglė Šumskienė, Ciara Bradley
Pubblicato in: Qualitative Social Work, Numero 2022, 2022, ISSN 1741-3117
Editore: 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

Autori: Sarah Arnold, Anne O’Brien, Lina Kaminskaitė-Jančorienė, Jelena Šalaj
Pubblicato in: Feminist Media Studies, 2024, Pagina/e 1-17, ISSN 1468-0777
Editore: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2024.2359494

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

Autori: Anne O’Brien, Sarah Arnold
Pubblicato in: Media, Culture &amp; Society, 2024, ISSN 0163-4437
Editore: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/01634437241229327

Other (1)

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

Autori: Egle Kackute; Valerie Heffernan
Pubblicato in: 2022
Editore: Dykinson

Conference proceedings (1)

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

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