Maternal abandonment and queer resistance in Twenty-First-Century Swedish literature / Jenny Björklund.
2021
PT9250
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Title
Maternal abandonment and queer resistance in Twenty-First-Century Swedish literature / Jenny Björklund.
ISBN
9783030728922 (electronic bk.)
3030728927 (electronic bk.)
9783030728915 (print)
3030728919
3030728927 (electronic bk.)
9783030728915 (print)
3030728919
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 293 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-72892-2 doi
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PT9250
Dewey Decimal Classification
839.70935220905
Summary
This book questions why so many mothers leave their families in twenty-first-century Swedish literature, analyzing literary representations of maternal abandonment in relation to sociopolitical discourses. The volume draws on a queer-theoretical framework in order to highlight norm-critical dimensions, failure, and resistance in literature about motherhood. Jenny Björklund argues that novels about mothers who leave can be understood as ways to problematize and challenge Swedish-branded values like gender equality and a progressive family politics that promotes ideals of involved parenthood, the nuclear family, and pronatalism. The book also raises questions beyond the Swedish context about maternal ambivalence, family politics, and privilege and discusses how literature can work as resistance and provide alternatives to the current social order.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: Happy Endings: (Re)producing the Gender Equality Ideal
Chapter 3: Bad Mothers: Challenging Good Motherhood
Chapter 4: The Nuclear Family as Well-Trodden Path and Script: Mental Ill-Health
Chapter 5: Unwilling Mothers: Challenging Swedish Pronatalism
Chapter 6: Conclusion: Dreams of a Different Future.
Chapter 1: Happy Endings: (Re)producing the Gender Equality Ideal
Chapter 3: Bad Mothers: Challenging Good Motherhood
Chapter 4: The Nuclear Family as Well-Trodden Path and Script: Mental Ill-Health
Chapter 5: Unwilling Mothers: Challenging Swedish Pronatalism
Chapter 6: Conclusion: Dreams of a Different Future.