Narrating Motherhood(s), Breaking the Silence: Other Mothers, Other Voices - Tapa blanda

These essays critically point out how writing becomes a tool to think and write about the many aspects of motherhood such as an idealised maternal experience versus the real one or the accepted stereotypes of the good mother and the bad mother.

Silvia Caporale-Bizzini is Associate Professor of English Literature and Critical Theory, Director of the Women's Studies Centre at Alicante University (Spain). She has co-edited/edited various books and has published articles and essays on cultural theory and contemporary literature in English. She is currently working on the relationship between motherhood, identity and representation in contemporary British women writers.