Intersectional Maternities: Matrifocal Narratives and New Types of Family in Anglophone Literature

In this sense, this research project will take Adrienne Rich's ideological proposal about motherhood as a starting point through which she distinguishes between motherhood as an experience and identity in opposition to motherhood as a patriarchal institution. Her foundational text Of Woman Born (1976) radically changed motherhood studies and feminism. This research projects innovative proposal introduces to her theory an intersectional perspective to analyze matrifocal narratives. 

• Elaborate from an intersectional perspective a theoretical corpus in which different literary theories intersect (feminism, queer, ecocriticism, poststructuralism) in order to create a specific matrifocal and literary theoretical corpus. 

• Disseminate its literary research in society and the educative community in order to promote gender equality, social and cultural equity and quality education through literature.

• Cover different literary currents and genres in order to outline the evolution and progress of the idea of motherhood, matrifocal narratives and consequently women's literature from the first feminist wave to contemporary literature