Unmasking (New) Maternal Realities

Chapter 1: Unmasking New Maternal Realities.- Section 1: The Pregnant and Puerperal Body.- Chapter 2: Expecting, Silent, Alone: Representation of Pregnancy in Núria Pompeia's Maternasis.- Chapter 3: Mothers and Aliens: Biotechnology and the Pregnant Body in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Series.- Chapter 4: Jazmina Barrera, Isabel Zapata, and the "Counter-Canon" of Motherhood Literature.- Chapter 5: Mediating Maternity: Laughter and Mom Humor on Social Media.- Section 2: Postpartum (Depression, Loss, Stillborn, Trauma).- Chapter 6: What Greater Grief? Trauma Theory and The Rules Do Not Apply.- Chapter 7: Fanciful Mourning: Daydreams and Maternal Ambivalence in Heather O'Neill's The Lonely Hearts Hotel.- Chapter 8: La Pietà on Broadway: Postpartum Bereavement and Wet Nurses on the American Stage.- Chapter 9: Peripartum Depression and Maternal Ambivalence in Helen Dunmore's Talking to the Dead.- Section 3: Alternative Spaces.- Chapter 10: Alternative Birth Spaces, Midwifery Care, and Empowered Birth in Transnational Contemporary Literature.- Chapter 11: Birthing Resistance: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Homebirth as Embodied Defiance of Medicalization.- Chapter 12: Maternal Inclination and the Politics of Immunity in Emma Donoghue's The Pull of the Stars.- Chapter 13: Magdalene Trauma-Telling in Aotearoa New Zealand Literature. A Comparative Study of Two Female Bildungsroman: Does This Make Sense to You? by Rene´e (1994), and Rich Man Road by Ann Glamuzina (2015).- Chapter 14: Conflicting Maternal Feelings in the Space of the Hogar: Duties and Desires in Maura Delpero's Maternal.