@ARTICLE{Okupnik_Małgorzata_Broken_2023,
 author={Okupnik, Małgorzata},
 number={No 4 (379)},
 journal={Ruch Literacki},
 pages={481-496},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2023},
 publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka},
 publisher={Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki},
 abstract={This article examines the artworks – treated as personal testimonies – by three wo-men, whose biographies could not have been more different, affected by pregnancy loss. They are Frida Kahlo’s Henry Ford Hospital, a surrealist representation of an induced abortion she had in 1932; Oriana Fallaci’s Letter to a Child Never Born (originally published in 1975); and Karolina Kaczyńska-Piwko’s Ciałość [ Bodiness] (2021). In spite of the huge time gaps that separated those three lives, their experiences connected with the loss of an unborn child have a lot in common. Each of them had to cope with loneliness, lack of support and indifference to their grief. The dominant element in Kahlo’s painting as well as Fallaci and Kaczyńska-Piwko’s narratives is the trauma of broken expectations for a happy motherhood.},
 type={Artykuł},
 title={Broken expectations for a child: Miscarriage in the context of matrifocality},
 URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/130834/2023-04-RL-03.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/rl.2023.148299},
 keywords={health humanities, matrifocality, autopathography, Frida Kahlo (1907–1954), Oriana Fallaci (1929–2006), (b. 1987)},
}