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Becoming a mother is a unique and multidimensional experience for the woman. However, it would be simplistic to state that motherhood affects her life as much as her body. This is why contemporary writers more and more often address in their novels the theme of matrescence and motherhood to show how the stage of becoming a mother changes the female life. Revealing this exceptional period, they look at the emotions and thoughts of a woman-mother as well as her relationships with others and the perception of her changing body. In their novels, Virginie Noar (Le corps d'après) and Françoise Guérin (Maternité) not only reveal the hidden emotions and thoughts of the woman-mother but also depict how the bodily changes influence her and her whole life. The article focuses on three significant stages of motherhood: pregnancy, giving birth, and lactation. Based on a feminist critical approach (Badinter, Froidevaux-Metterie, Irigaray) and on psychoanalytic theories (Bydlowski), the study presents how important the female body is to the motherwoman's identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
