A book analyzes the representation of motherhood and its political dimension

The dominant narrative on motherhood relegates the woman to the private ambit and to the dimension of emotions and of sentiment, as something that is the opposite of the public and the theoretical. And this is an eminently political discourse, that is, an act of power and of structuring social relations. That is one of the conclusions drawn from "Maternidades. Políticas de la representación" (Motherhoods. Politics of Representation), a collection of essays by ten authors, published in the +Media collection by Cátedra Publishers and coordinated by two Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) researchers and professors, which explore narratives on being a mother and its political and experiential articulation. Within the book's pages, a broad array of discourse and narratives on motherhood are analyzed: from the Bible to the contemporary audiovisual realm. "They are the narratives that give meaning to our experience, including that which is seemingly private and personal", observes one of the co-editors, Pilar Carrera, Professor in the UC3M Department of Communication.