Negotiating Non-Motherhood
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Negotiating Non-Motherhood

Representations, Perceptions, and Experiences

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Negotiating Non-Motherhood

Representations, Perceptions, and Experiences

About this book

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, andfilm studies to explore non-motherhood. The book focuses on how women who choose or experience non-motherhood are negotiated, felt, represented, and received.

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Yes, you can access Negotiating Non-Motherhood by Jenny Björklund,Dovilė Kuzminskaitė,Julie Rodgers in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Literary Criticism for Comparative Literature. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. 1. Conceptualising Non-Motherhood
  4. 2. Reclaiming Non-Motherhood: Abjection, Laughter and Failure in Twenty-First-Century Swedish Narratives of Childlessness
  5. 3. Non-Motherhood and the Narrative of the Self in Nuria Labari’s The Best Mother of the World
  6. 4. Meanings, Experiences, and Perspectives on Non-Motherhood in a Spanish Context
  7. 5. Alternative Happy Endings? A Qualitative Study of Non-Mothers in Lithuania
  8. 6. The Incomplete Mother as Non-mother: A Study of Secondary Infertility in Helen Davies’ More Love to Give
  9. 7. Pregnancy Loss in Contemporary Italophone Literature
  10. 8. Infertility, Desire for Motherhood and Surrogacy in Miguel de Unamuno’s Dos madres
  11. 9. Autonomy, Autocreation and Agency: Radical Non-Motherhood in Amandine Gay’s Une poupée en chocolat (2021)
  12. 10. Choosing Childlessness: Familial and National Acts of Resistance in Preti Taneja’s We That Are Young (2017)
  13. 11. Voluntary Childlessness in the Spanish Graphic Novel: Irene Olmo’s No quiero ser mamá (2020)
  14. 12. Adapting (to) Non-Motherhood: Ulrike Kofler’s Film What We Wanted (2020)
  15. Back Matter