Francesca, an artist and performer, recounts her experience of motherhood, desired but not in line with common rhetoric, rather made of a daily exercise applied to self-definition, couple relationships, and work management. Francesca's is an invitation to share women's stories…
Rosella, mother of two grown up sons now independent, tells us about the feelings she experienced during her pregnancies: the sense of responsibility and of being inadequate, the awareness of having a body, the fear of people's judgment. Vuoi ascoltare…
Flavia tells she doesn’t have a definite position on children. What she is sure about is that a woman’s happiness and fulfillment, despite social pressure, cannot depend on the existence of another life. Vuoi ascoltare e leggere altre testimonianze? Sostieni…
Silvia, a young Italian-French woman, reflects on the work-life relationship that women have to manage in addition to the commitment of having a child. She recounts her private life characterised by her choice not to have children, her relationship as…
Three women living in Berlin discuss their experiences of motherhood. Anne is a so-called 'raven-mother', after the separation from her husband she left her first two children, and today she is experiencing her third motherhood; Lena lives with her second…
Despite feelings of guilt, Anne gave birth to a third child after leaving the first two completely in the care of her ex-husband. She is called a 'raven mother' (neglecting mother who does not care for her children) and is…
Alexandra, a 30-year-old woman from Cuenca, strongly expresses her decision not to have children: a well thought-over and consciously taken final choice. The reasons for her position depend largely on her sense of political responsibility and the external pressures she…
Maya, a university lecturer in Washington, reflects on the different social pressures associated with motherhood in the United States and Lebanon, her home country, where assisted fertilization is a common practice strongly encouraged, consistent with the view of motherhood as…
