Introduction : Mothers and daughters in Western Europe: mapping the territory ; Writing the mother-daughter relationship: psychoanalysis, culture, and literary criticism / Adalgisa Giorgio
Towards a female symbolic: re-presenting mothers and daughters in contemporary Spanish narrative by women / Christine Arkinstall
'Horror of the unlived life': mother-daughter relationships in contemporary Irish women's fiction / Anne Fogarty
Passion for the mother: conflicts and idealisations in contemporary Italian narrative by women / Adalgisa Giorgio
Writing mother-daughter relationality in the French context / Alex Hughes
Bad daughters and unmotherly mothers: the new family plot in the contemporary English novel / Paola Splendore
Power and powerlessness: mothers and daughters in postware German and Austrian literature / Chris Weedon.