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ArgumentaireLes figures de la maternit&#233; ont endoss&#233; au cours de l&#8217;histoire des soci&#233;t&#233;s anglophones des r&#244;les contradictoires situ&#233;s au c&#339;ur des enjeux de pouvoir&#160;: tour &#224; tour exalt&#233;es comme piliers de la nation, incarnations des valeurs de sacrifice et de pr&#233;voyance, ou surveill&#233;es et punies pour avoir failli dans leur r&#244;le de reproduction des valeurs de responsabilit&#233; individuelle et de ma&#238;trise de soi.Pr&#232;s d&#8217;un si&#232;cle apr&#232;s avoir obtenu leur &#233;mancipation politique, presque cinquante ans apr&#232;s les grandes luttes pour l&#8217;&#233;mancipation sexuelle &#8212; dont les acquis demeurent in&#233;gaux d&#8217;un pays &#224; l&#8217;autre &#8212;, les femmes am&#233;ricaines, britanniques, irlandaises et des pays du Commonwealth conservent un statut minoritaire particuli&#232;rement visible et politis&#233; lorsqu&#8217;elles sont d&#233;finies sous l&#8217;angle de la maternit&#233;. Tout se passe comme si le changement social arrach&#233; au terme de conflits &#233;tait refoul&#233; dans ses effets par la mont&#233;e de discours stigmatisants &#224; l&#8217;&#233;gard des femmes les plus vuln&#233;rables (m&#232;res adolescentes, m&#232;res isol&#233;es, m&#232;res porteuses, adoptives, &#226;g&#233;es (older mothers), handicap&#233;es, s&#233;ropositives, immigr&#233;es ou issues de minorit&#233;s ethniques, de milieux d&#233;favoris&#233;s urbains ou ruraux, homosexuelles, travailleuses du sexe, transsexuelles, d&#233;tenues, m&#232;res dont les enfants sont confi&#233;s &#224; la Protection de l&#8217;enfance), souvent tenues pour responsables de leurs situations alors m&#234;me que l&#8217;acc&#232;s &#224; des moyens efficaces d&#8217;information ou &#224; des structures con&#231;ues pour r&#233;pondre &#224; leurs besoins est de plus en plus soumis &#224; condition. La maternit&#233;, traditionnellement c&#233;l&#233;br&#233;e comme un accomplissement dans une vie de femme, n&#8217;en est pas moins assimil&#233;e &#224; un d&#233;classement social, voire &#224; une d&#233;personnalisation des femmes lorsque l&#8217;&#201;tat ou les acteurs sociaux, investis d&#8217;une l&#233;gitimit&#233; morale, exercent un droit d&#8217;ing&#233;rence dans l&#8217;acc&#232;s &#224; l&#8217;&#233;ducation sexuelle, aux moyens de contraception, aux prestations sociales, aux modes de garde et au choix d&#8217;un mode d&#8217;&#233;ducation.L&#8217;ambition de ce colloque est d&#8217;interroger les discours li&#233;s &#224; la maternit&#233;, les traductions des choix de soci&#233;t&#233; dans les repr&#233;sentations culturelles des m&#232;res comme ic&#244;nes ou boucs-&#233;missaires, et la r&#233;ception ou la critique de ces repr&#233;sentations dans le contexte d&#8217;une qu&#234;te de conformit&#233; ou de lib&#233;ration des conventions sociales.ProgrammeMaison des sciences de l&#8217;homme, 33 All&#233;e Ferdinand de Lesseps, 37200 ToursSalle polyvalente au rez-de-chauss&#233;eMonday 3 April 20178:30 &#8211; 8:50 Arrival of delegates and complimentary coffee/ tea8:50 &#8211; 9:15 Welcome address by Professor and Head of ICD research group M&#243;nica Zapata and Dr Alexis Chommeloux, Dean of the Faculty of HumanitiesChairs: Professor Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq and Dr C&#233;cile Coquet-Mokoko9:15 &#8211; 10:00 Professor Martine Sagaert (Universit&#233; de Toulon, Keynote speaker) &#171;&#160;Procr&#233;ation et cr&#233;ation, de Simone de Beauvoir &#224; Marie Darrieussecq&#160;&#187;Representations of Motherhood /&#160;Repr&#233;sentations des figures maternelles10:00 &#8211; 10:20 Ms Ilana Larkin (PhD Candidate, Northwestern, USA)&#160;&#8220;The Emotional Life of Food: Mothering, Eating, and National Identity&#8221;10:20 &#8211; 10:40 Dr Anne-Lise Marin-Lamellet (Universit&#233; de Saint-Etienne) &#8220;The Mother and the Whore: Working-Class Motherhood in British Cinema (1956-2016)&#8221;10:40 &#8211; 11:00 Ms Kira Hussing (PhD Candidate, University of Maynooth, Ireland)&#160;&#8220;Maternal Conflict in Contemporary Irish Film&#8221;11:00 &#8211; 11:20 Ms Emma Heishman (PhD Candidate, Universit&#233; Aix-Marseille 1) &#8220;Motherlove was a killer&#8221;: Representations of Black Motherhood in the Media&#8217;&#8217;11:20 &#8211; 11:45 Questions and answers (Qs &#38;As)11:45 &#8211; 13:30 Buffet lunch (room 147, 1st&#160;floor)Chair: Dr C&#233;cile Coquet-Mokoko13:30 &#8211; 13:50 Dr Anne Sweet-F&#233;d&#233; (Ponts et Chauss&#233;es) &#8220;When an &#8220;Action Chick&#8221; Gets Knocked Up: Pregnancy, Motherhood and Televised Action Heroines&#8221;13:50 &#8211; 14:10 Dr Charles Joseph (Universit&#233; Rennes 2)&#160;&#8220;Super-Moms: Mothers and Motherhood in American Comic Book Culture&#8221;14:10 &#8211; 14:30 Professor Laurie Edson (San Diego, USA)&#160;&#8220;Postcolonial Economics and Motherhood from Emecheta to Adichie&#8221;14:30 &#8211; 14:50 Professor M&#243;nica Zapata (Universit&#233; Tours)&#160;&#171;&#160;De m&#232;re en fille. &#192; propos de&#160;La maison aux esprits&#160;et&#160;Les &#233;pices de la passion&#160;&#187;14:50 &#8211; 15:10 Qs &#38; As15:10 &#8211; 15:30 Coffee breakMothers&#8217; Unseen Economic and Cultural Transmission /&#160;Des agents &#233;conomiques et culturels discr&#232;tesChair: Dr C&#233;cile Coquet-Mokoko15:30 &#8211; 15:50 Dr Coralie Raffenne (Universit&#233; Dauphine, Paris)&#160;&#8216;&#8216;Feminist economics and the deconstruction of mothers&#8217; soluble self&#8217;&#8217;15:50 &#8211; 16:10 Ms Kasia Choluj (PhD Candidate, University of Kent, UK)&#160;&#8220;Reinventing Mother Pole /Matka Polka/ through home-making and parenting practices in the new Polish diaspora in Britain&#8221;16:10 &#8211; 16:30 Ms Toni McCallum (PhD Candidate, University of Newcastle, Australia)&#160;&#8220;Intersectionality in race, class and gender: Co-mothering in Logan, Queensland, Australia as a discourse of difference&#8221;16:30 &#8211; 16:45 Qs &#38; As16:45 &#8211; 17:15 Coffee breakTuesday 4 April 2017Maison des sciences de l&#8217;homme, 33 All&#233;e Ferdinand de Lesseps, 37200 Tours&#160;Salle polyvalente au rez-de-chauss&#233;e8:30 &#8211; 9:00 complimentary coffee/ teaBiopolitics/Biosocial: Rethinking Motherhood /&#160;Quand la biopolitique fa&#231;onne la maternit&#233;Chairs: Professors Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq and Georges-Claude Guilbert9:00 &#8211; 9:45 Professor Rosalind Edwards (University of Southampton, UK) &#38; Professor Val Gillies (University of Westminster, UK) (Keynote speakers)&#160;&#8220;(M)othering and the politics of early intervention: biologisation and the reproduction of gendered, classed and raced inequalities&#8221;9:45 &#8211; 10:05 Ms Cigala Peirano (Master degree, Universit&#233; Paris 8/UFSC Brazil)&#160;&#160;&#171;&#160;M&#233;dicalisation de la maternit&#233; au d&#233;but du XXe&#160;si&#232;cle : une comparaison Chili-Br&#233;sil&#160;&#187;10:05 &#8211; 10:25 Ms Annick Valli&#232;res (PhD Candidate, UdeM, Canada)&#160;&#171;&#160;Au-del&#224; des recommandations des autorit&#233;s de sant&#233; publique&#160;: la diversit&#233; des aspirations d&#8217;allaitement des m&#232;res &#187;10:25 &#8211; 10:40 Qs &#38; As10:40 &#8211; 11:00 Coffee breakUnsettling Mother Figures and Unsettling Rhetoric /&#160;Des m&#232;res et des discours d&#233;rangeants11:00 &#8211; 11:20 Dr Rachel&#160;Jarvie&#160;(University of Exeter, UK)&#160;&#8216;'Renewed' 'older' motherhood/mothering: A qualitative exploration&#8217;&#8217;11:20 &#8211; 11:40 Ms Sarah Bekaert (PhD Candidate, City University, UK)&#160;&#8220;&#8216;Why do I always become pregnant when I&#8217;m on the pill?&#8217;&#160;Legitimising narratives &#8211; how contemporary expectations for teen-age silence teen mothers&#8217; desire for motherhood&#8221;11:40 &#8211; 12:00 Ms&#160;Joelle Bradly&#160;(UK activist)&#160;&#8220;Alternative narratives of Teenage Motherhood&#8221; (UK)12:00 &#8211; 12:20 Dr Katherine Albertson (et al.) (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)&#160;&#8220;Mother figures behind bars: Pregnant women and mothers in English prisons&#8221;12:20 &#8211; 12:40 Qs &#38; As12:40 &#8211; 14:00 Buffet lunch&#160;Salle 11 D&#233;partement Am&#233;nagement, &#201;cole Polytechnique,&#160;35 all&#233;e Ferdinand de Lesseps 37200 Tours (en face de la MSH)Rights and Issues/ Rights and EthicsQuestions de droitsChairs: Professor M&#243;nica Zapata and Dr C&#233;cile Coquet-Mokoko14:00 &#8211; 14:20 Dr Eva-Sabine Zehelein (Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany)&#160;&#8220; &#8216;Her Uterus, My Baby&#8217;: Gestational Surrogacy and Reconceptualizations of Motherhood&#8221;14:20 &#8211; 14:40 Dr Florence Binard (Universit&#233; Paris 7)&#160;&#8220;Lesbian Motherhood: From the Social Recognition of Female Homosexuality to the&#160;&#8216;Lesby-boom&#8217;: A Comparison Between Britain and France&#8221;14:40 - 15:00 Dr Anthony Castet (Universit&#233; Tours)&#160;&#8216;&#8216;Lesbian Mothers and Citizens: the Morality Test at the US Supreme Court&#8217;&#8217;15:00 - 15:20 Dr&#160;Sophie Large&#160;(Universit&#233; Tours)&#160;&#171;&#160;Les m&#232;res atypiques de Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro&#160;: Monstres ou victimes&#160;?&#160;&#187;15:20 &#8211; 15:40 Qs &#38; As15:40 &#8211; 16:00&#160;Coffee break17:00 Visit of the city of Tours (2 h)19:30 &#8211; 22:00 Evening meal in the cityWednesday 5 April 2017Maison des sciences de l&#8217;homme, 33 All&#233;e Ferdinand de Lesseps, 37200 ToursSalle polyvalente au rez-de-chauss&#233;e9:00 &#8211; 9:20 Complimentary coffee/ teaChairs: Professor Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq and Dr C&#233;cile Coquet-MokokoReligious Traditions and Constructions of Motherhood/Maternity /&#160;Les m&#232;res&#160;entre traditions religieuses et constructions sociales9:20 &#8211; 9:40 Dr Pam Lowe &#38; Dr Sarah Jane Page (Aston University, UK)&#160;&#8220;&#8216;On the Wet Side of the Womb&#8217;: The construction of mothers and motherhood in anti-abortion activism in England and Wales&#8221;9:40 &#8211; 10:00 Professor Philippe Brillet (Universit&#233; Tours)&#160;&#8216;&#8216;That motherhood fails to be adequately supported by the state exemplifies the lack of social services - and benefits - in the Republic of Ireland.&#8217;&#8217;10:00 &#8211; 10:20 Dr Patricia Mauclair (Universit&#233; Tours)&#160;&#171;&#160;Repr&#233;sentations de la maternit&#233; dans les albums jeunesse espagnols contemporains&#160;&#187;10:20 &#8211; 10:40Dr Elisabeth Bouzonviller (Universit&#233; Saint-Etienne)&#160;&#8220;Female &#8216;Transformational Energy&#8217; in Louise Erdrich's works&#8221;10:40 &#8211; 11:00 Qs &#38; As11:00 Closure of the conference and coffee breakOrganisationProfessor Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq Dr C&#233;cile Coquet-Mokoko (University Fran&#231;ois Rabelais, Tours).&#160;ICD (EA 6297)Useful informationTo get to the venue: Take tram A line&#160;Lyc&#233;e Jean Monet.&#160;Alight at&#160;Heure Tranquille&#160;station. Then walk back for about 50 metres and you will arrive at the venue located at 33 all&#233;e Ferdinand de Lesseps.To contact the organisers please dial 0033 642 477 390 (Fabienne)&#160;and/or (C&#233;cile) 0033 663 016 078.ArgumentAlternately celebrated and pilloried, mother figures have been assigned contradictory roles throughout the histories of English-speaking societies.&#160;Reflecting the power structures and conflicts of their times, they have been portrayed as pillars of society, providing material and emotional security, and models of sacrifice, or vilified for failing to perpetuate the expected values of individual responsibility and self-control.&#160;Nearly a century after winning political emancipation and almost half a century after the historic struggles for sexual emancipation&#8212;which yielded unequal results from one country to another&#8212;, women in all segments of society in the USA, the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth are still regarded as second-class citizens, particularly when viewed and politicised through the lens&#160;of motherhood and mothering. While social change has gradually progressed since early conflicts for emancipation, improvement has been opposed by an increasingly stigmatising rhetoric targeting the most vulnerable women &#8212; teenage mothers, lone mothers, surrogate mothers, disabled mothers, older mothers, adoptive mothers, migrant ormothers identified in racial terms, women raising their families in urban or rural poverty, mothers with AIDS, lesbian or transsexual mothers, sex workers, inmates with children or mothers whose children are in foster care: each of these figures of &#8216;inadequate,&#8217; &#8216;dysfunctional&#8217; or &#8216;undeserving&#8217; motherhood is held responsible for her situation. Access to sex education, information on reproductive rights or structures to address her specific needs are increasingly restricted and conditional. Traditionally extolled as an accomplishment in a woman&#8217;s life, motherhood is nonetheless equated with a loss of status or personhood for women when the state or other legal persons endowed with ethical legitimacy can claim a right to interfere with their access to sex education, reproductive rights, family benefits, day-care or parenting choices.This conference aims to question the various ways in which motherhood is judged, how political choices are translated into cultural representations of mothers as either icons or scapegoats, and how these representations are received and challenged in a quest for either conformity or agency.ProgrammeMaison des sciences de l&#8217;homme, 33 All&#233;e Ferdinand de Lesseps, 37200 ToursSalle polyvalente au rez-de-chauss&#233;eMonday 3 April 20178:30 &#8211; 8:50 Arrival of delegates and complimentary coffee/ tea8:50 &#8211; 9:15 Welcome address by Professor and Head of ICD research group&#160;M&#243;nica Zapata&#160;and Dr&#160;Alexis Chommeloux, Dean of the Faculty of HumanitiesChairs: Professor&#160;Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq&#160;and Dr&#160;C&#233;cile Coquet-Mokoko9:15 &#8211; 10:00 Professor&#160;Martine Sagaert&#160;(Universit&#233; de Toulon, Keynote speaker) &#171;&#160;Procr&#233;ation et cr&#233;ation, de Simone de Beauvoir &#224; Marie Darrieussecq&#160;&#187;Representations of Motherhood /&#160;Repr&#233;sentations des figures maternelles10:00 &#8211; 10:20 Ms&#160;Ilana Larkin&#160;(PhD Candidate, Northwestern, USA)&#160;&#8220;The Emotional Life of Food: Mothering, Eating, and National Identity&#8221;10:20 &#8211; 10:40 Dr&#160;Anne-Lise Marin-Lamellet&#160;(Universit&#233; de Saint-Etienne)&#160;&#8220;The Mother and the Whore: Working-Class Motherhood in British Cinema (1956-2016)&#8221;10:40 &#8211; 11:00 Ms&#160;Kira Hussing&#160;(PhD Candidate, University of Maynooth, Ireland)&#160;&#8220;Maternal Conflict in Contemporary Irish Film&#8221;11:00 &#8211; 11:20 Ms&#160;Emma Heishman&#160;(PhD Candidate, Universit&#233; Aix-Marseille 1)&#160;&#8220;Motherlove was a killer&#8221;: Representations of Black Motherhood in the Media&#8217;&#8217;11:20 &#8211; 11:45 Questions and answers (Qs &#38;As)11:45 &#8211; 13:30 Buffet lunch (room 147, 1st&#160;floor)Chair: Dr&#160;C&#233;cile Coquet-Mokoko13:30 &#8211; 13:50 Dr&#160;Anne Sweet-F&#233;d&#233;&#160;(Ponts et Chauss&#233;es)&#160;&#8220;When an &#8220;Action Chick&#8221; Gets Knocked Up: Pregnancy, Motherhood and Televised Action Heroines&#8221;13:50 &#8211; 14:10 Dr&#160;Charles Joseph&#160;(Universit&#233; Rennes 2)&#160;&#8220;Super-Moms: Mothers and Motherhood in American Comic Book Culture&#8221;14:10 &#8211; 14:30 Professor&#160;Laurie Edson&#160;(San Diego, USA)&#160;&#8220;Postcolonial Economics and Motherhood from Emecheta to Adichie&#8221;14:30 &#8211; 14:50 Professor&#160;M&#243;nica Zapata&#160;(Universit&#233; Tours)&#160;&#171;&#160;De m&#232;re en fille. &#192; propos de&#160;La maison aux esprits&#160;et&#160;Les &#233;pices de la passion&#160;&#187;14:50 &#8211; 15:10 Qs &#38; As15:10 &#8211; 15:30 Coffee breakMothers&#8217; Unseen Economic and Cultural Transmission /&#160;Des agents &#233;conomiques et culturels discr&#232;tesChair: Dr&#160;C&#233;cile Coquet-Mokoko15:30 &#8211; 15:50 Dr&#160;Coralie Raffenne&#160;(Universit&#233; Dauphine, Paris)&#160;&#8216;&#8216;Feminist economics and the deconstruction of mothers&#8217; soluble self&#8217;&#8217;15:50 &#8211; 16:10 Ms&#160;Kasia Choluj&#160;(PhD Candidate, University of Kent, UK)&#160;&#8220;Reinventing Mother Pole /Matka Polka/ through home-making and parenting practices in the new Polish diaspora in Britain&#8221;16:10 &#8211; 16:30 Ms&#160;Toni McCallum&#160;(PhD Candidate, University of Newcastle, Australia)&#160;&#8220;Intersectionality in race, class and gender: Co-mothering in Logan, Queensland, Australia as a discourse of difference&#8221;16:30 &#8211; 16:45 Qs &#38; As16:45 &#8211; 17:15 Coffee breakTuesday 4 April 2017Maison des sciences de l&#8217;homme, 33 All&#233;e Ferdinand de Lesseps, 37200 Tours&#160;Salle polyvalente au rez-de-chauss&#233;e8:30 &#8211; 9:00 complimentary coffee/ teaBiopolitics/Biosocial: Rethinking Motherhood /&#160;Quand la biopolitique fa&#231;onne la maternit&#233;Chairs: Professors&#160;Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq and Georges-Claude Guilbert9:00 &#8211; 9:45 Professor&#160;Rosalind Edwards&#160;(University of Southampton, UK) &#38; Professor Val Gillies (University of Westminster, UK) (Keynote speakers)&#160;&#8220;(M)othering and the politics of early intervention: biologisation and the reproduction of gendered, classed and raced inequalities&#8221;9:45 &#8211; 10:05 Ms&#160;Cigala Peirano&#160;(Master degree, Universit&#233; Paris 8/UFSC Brazil)&#160;&#160;&#171;&#160;M&#233;dicalisation de la maternit&#233; au d&#233;but du XXe&#160;si&#232;cle : une comparaison Chili-Br&#233;sil&#160;&#187;10:05 &#8211; 10:25 Ms&#160;Annick Valli&#232;res&#160;(PhD Candidate, UdeM, Canada)&#160;&#171;&#160;Au-del&#224; des recommandations des autorit&#233;s de sant&#233; publique&#160;: la diversit&#233; des aspirations d&#8217;allaitement des m&#232;res &#187;10:25 &#8211; 10:40 Qs &#38; As10:40 &#8211; 11:00 Coffee breakUnsettling Mother Figures and Unsettling Rhetoric /&#160;Des m&#232;res et des discours d&#233;rangeants11:00 &#8211; 11:20 Dr&#160;Rachel&#160;Jarvie&#160;(University of Exeter, UK)&#160;&#8216;'Renewed' 'older' motherhood/mothering: A qualitative exploration&#8217;&#8217;11:20 &#8211; 11:40 Ms&#160;Sarah Bekaert&#160;(PhD Candidate, City University, UK)&#160;&#8220;&#8216;Why do I always become pregnant when I&#8217;m on the pill?&#8217;&#160;Legitimising narratives &#8211; how contemporary expectations for teen-age silence teen mothers&#8217; desire for motherhood&#8221;11:40 &#8211; 12:00 Ms&#160;Joelle Bradly&#160;(UK activist)&#160;&#8220;Alternative narratives of Teenage Motherhood&#8221; (UK)12:00 &#8211; 12:20 Dr&#160;Katherine Albertson&#160;(et al.) (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)&#160;&#8220;Mother figures behind bars: Pregnant women and mothers in English prisons&#8221;12:20 &#8211; 12:40 Qs &#38; As12:40 &#8211; 14:00 Buffet lunch&#160;Salle 11 D&#233;partement Am&#233;nagement, &#201;cole Polytechnique,&#160;35 all&#233;e Ferdinand de Lesseps 37200 Tours (en face de la MSH)Rights and Issues/ Rights and EthicsQuestions de droitsChairs: Professor&#160;M&#243;nica Zapata&#160;and Dr&#160;C&#233;cile Coquet-Mokoko14:00 &#8211; 14:20 Dr&#160;Eva-Sabine Zehelein&#160;(Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany)&#160;&#8220; &#8216;Her Uterus, My Baby&#8217;: Gestational Surrogacy and Reconceptualizations of Motherhood&#8221;14:20 &#8211; 14:40 Dr&#160;Florence Binard&#160;(Universit&#233; Paris 7)&#160;&#8220;Lesbian Motherhood: From the Social Recognition of Female Homosexuality to the&#160;&#8216;Lesby-boom&#8217;: A Comparison Between Britain and France&#8221;14:40 - 15:00 Dr&#160;Anthony Castet&#160;(Universit&#233; Tours)&#160;&#8216;&#8216;Lesbian Mothers and Citizens: the Morality Test at the US Supreme Court&#8217;&#8217;15:00 - 15:20 Dr&#160;Sophie Large&#160;(Universit&#233; Tours)&#160;&#171;&#160;Les m&#232;res atypiques de Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro&#160;: Monstres ou victimes&#160;?&#160;&#187;15:20 &#8211; 15:40 Qs &#38; As15:40 &#8211; 16:00&#160;Coffee break17:00 Visit of the city of Tours (2 h)19:30 &#8211; 22:00 Evening meal in the cityWednesday 5 April 2017Maison des sciences de l&#8217;homme, 33 All&#233;e Ferdinand de Lesseps, 37200 ToursSalle polyvalente au rez-de-chauss&#233;e9:00 &#8211; 9:20 Complimentary coffee/ teaChairs: Professor&#160;Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq&#160;and Dr&#160;C&#233;cile Coquet-MokokoReligious Traditions and Constructions of Motherhood/Maternity /&#160;Les m&#232;res&#160;entre traditions religieuses et constructions sociales9:20 &#8211; 9:40 Dr&#160;Pam Lowe&#160;&#38; Dr&#160;Sarah Jane Page&#160;(Aston University, UK)&#160;&#8220;&#8216;On the Wet Side of the Womb&#8217;: The construction of mothers and motherhood in anti-abortion activism in England and Wales&#8221;9:40 &#8211; 10:00 Professor&#160;Philippe Brillet&#160;(Universit&#233; Tours)&#160;&#8216;&#8216;That motherhood fails to be adequately supported by the state exemplifies the lack of social services - and benefits - in the Republic of Ireland.&#8217;&#8217;10:00 &#8211; 10:20 Dr&#160;Patricia Mauclair&#160;(Universit&#233; Tours)&#160;&#171;&#160;Repr&#233;sentations de la maternit&#233; dans les albums jeunesse espagnols contemporains&#160;&#187;10:20 &#8211; 10:40Dr&#160;Elisabeth Bouzonviller&#160;(Universit&#233; Saint-Etienne)&#160;&#8220;Female &#8216;Transformational Energy&#8217; in Louise Erdrich's works&#8221;10:40 &#8211; 11:00 Qs &#38; As11:00 Closure of the conference and coffee breakOrganisationProfessor Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq Dr C&#233;cile Coquet-Mokoko (University Fran&#231;ois Rabelais, Tours).&#160;ICD (EA 6297)Useful informationTo get to the venue: Take tram A line&#160;Lyc&#233;e Jean Monet.&#160;Alight at&#160;Heure Tranquille&#160;station. Then walk back for about 50 metres and you will arrive at the venue located at 33 all&#233;e Ferdinand de Lesseps.To contact the organisers please dial 0033 642 477 390 (Fabienne)&#160;and/or (C&#233;cile) 0033 663 016 078.