Negotiating Non-Motherhood: Representations, Perceptions, and Experiences (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life)

By: Jenny Björklund and Dovilė Kuzminskaitė and Julie Rodgers

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Synopsis: This open access edited volume focuses on the representations, perceptions, and experiences of women who do not have children against the backdrop of traditional gender norms, pronatalist policies, and patriarchal structures. While involuntary and voluntary childlessness have typically been treated separately and studied within different disciplines in most previous scholarship, contributing authors explore non-motherhood beyond the involuntary/voluntary divide and consider a wide range of conceptualizations of women who do not become mothers. The editors bring together a variety of perspectives from different national contexts and disciplines, including family studies, gender studies, literary and cultural studies, sociology, and film studies to explore non-motherhood. The book focuses on how women who choose or experience non-motherhood are negotiated, felt, represented, and received.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783031666971
Related ISBNs:: 9783031666964
Publisher:: Springer Nature Switzerland
Date of Addition:: 12/16/24
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Jenny Björklund
Edited by:: Dovilė Kuzminskaitė
Edited by:: Julie Rodgers