¿Mothers against women? Motherhood in the Maghreb’s women novelists Authors Marta Segarra Universitat de Barcelona Keywords: Maghreb, Francophone novel, motherhood Abstract In the Maghreb, as well as in the Mediterranean societies in general, femininity has been identified –and to a certain extent still is– with motherhood. The literary representations of motherhood made by women writers of the first generation of Francophone literature described it as a conservative drive which acts against those women who are not mothers. On the contrary, the second generation offers, in general, a more complex and nuanced vision –although not always a positive one– of motherhood. Downloads PDF (Català) PDF (Español) Issue No. 14 (2008): Maternitat a l'islam Section Dossier License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
