03432nam 22007335 450 991048514290332120230810172819.03-030-72892-710.1007/978-3-030-72892-2(CKB)4100000011954562(MiAaPQ)EBC6637098(Au-PeEL)EBL6637098(OCoLC)1257666674(DE-He213)978-3-030-72892-2(BIP)079363348(EXLCZ)99410000001195456220210603d2021 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMaternal Abandonment and Queer Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Swedish Literature /by Jenny Björklund1st ed. 2021.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2021.1 online resource (298 pages)3-030-72891-9 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.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.Literature, Modern20th centuryLiterature, Modern21st centuryEuropean literatureSexFeminismFeminist theoryQueer theoryContemporary LiteratureEuropean LiteratureGender StudiesFeminism and Feminist TheoryQueer StudiesGermanic LiteratureLiterature, Modern20th century.Literature, Modern21st century.European literature.Sex.Feminism.Feminist theory.Queer theory.Contemporary Literature.European Literature.Gender Studies.Feminism and Feminist Theory.Queer Studies.839.70935220905839.70935220905Björklund Jenny849113MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910485142903321Maternal Abandonment and Queer Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Swedish Literature1896437UNINA