Maternal Paradox: When Nurturer Meets the Knife, Living Organ Donation From Daughters to Mothers in Türkiye This article uses the case of living organ donation from daughters to mothers in Türkiye to examine how maternal subjectivities are constructed, enacted, and transformed within specific cultural cont...

Demirhan & Gürses Köse call this the maternal paradox—a moment where care, sacrifice, and identity are both reproduced and transformed.

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What if motherhood doesn’t begin with birth but with risk?

In this new article, Sezen Demirhan & İlknur Gürses Köse rethink living organ donation beyond “altruism.”

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Lunch Hour Lecture | '50 Years of Becoming a Mother' In this lecture, Prof. Charlotte Faircloth present an engaging overview of the ‘50 Years of Becoming a Mother’ project.

New research: how has advice to new mothers changed over the past 50 years?
Join TCRU's Charlotte Faircloth to hear early insights from the ‘50 Years of Becoming a Mother’ study, revisiting women first interviewed in the 1970s.
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