Table of Contents:
  • 1. Trauma and Recovery New Challenges to Motherhood
  • Part I: Pregnancy, Childbirth and Trauma
  • 2. Understanding the Trauma of Pervasive Pregnancy Denial in L’enfant que je n’attendais pas
  • 3. Salvaging the Bones Means Fighting for Reproductive Justice: Jesmyn Ward’s Literary Representations of the Trauma Produced by Attacks on Reproductive Rights, Comprehensive Sex Education, and Access to Maternal Health Care
  • 4. Social Trauma and the Anti-Maternal Body in Diane a les épaule
  • Part II: Trauma and Disrupted Mother-Child Bonds
  • 5. Trauma Behind Bars: Maternal Dilemma in Rossella Schillaci’s Ninna nanna prigioniera
  • 6. “Pour dire la souffrance des innocents?” Problematics of the Madonna-Son Trope in Representing Trauma in Philippe Aractingi’s Under the Bombs and Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum
  • 7. Traumatic Memory and Narrative Healing in Contemporary Diasporic Chinese British Women’s Writing
  • Part III. New Challenges with ART
  • 8. Tragedy, In Vitro: The Function of Reproductive Science in Simon Stone’s Adaptation of Yerma
  • 9. “I have an enterprise:” Transnational Surrogacy, Neoliberal Repropreneurship, and the Potential Trauma of Clinical Labor in Zippi Brand Frank’s Google Baby
  • 10. No Trauma for Artificial Women: Monstrous, Cybernetics, and Anomalous Mothers in Current Latin American Science Fiction.