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VOICING VOLUNTARY CHILDLESSNESS
NARRATIVES OF NON-MOTHERING IN FRENCH |
| By: |
Natalie Edwards |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£56.80 |
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| ISBN 10: |
303431809X |
| ISBN 13: |
9783034318099 |
| Publisher: |
PETER LANG AG, INTERNATIONALER VERLAG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN |
| Pub. date: |
21 December, 2015 |
| Series: |
Studies in Contemporary Women's Writing 3 |
| Pages: |
212 |
| Description: |
This book looks at first-person accounts of voluntary childlessness by women writing in French. It brings together authors who stake out a new terrain, creating a textual space in which to take ownership of their childlessness and call for new understandings of female identity beyond maternity. |
| Synopsis: |
The decision to reject motherhood is the subject of several key works of literature in French since the new millennium. This book looks at first-person accounts of voluntary childlessness by women writing in French. The book explores how women narrate their decision not to mother, the issues that they face in doing so and the narrative techniques that they employ to justify their stories. It asks how these authors challenge stereotypes of the childless woman by claiming their own identity in narrative, publicly proclaiming their right to choose and writing a femininity that is not connected to motherhood. Using feminist, sociological and psychoanalytic theories to interrogate non-mothering, this work is the first book-length study of narratives that counter this long-standing taboo. It brings together authors who stake out a new terrain, creating a textual space in which to take ownership of their childlessness and call for new understandings of female identity beyond maternity. |
| Publication: |
Switzerland |
| Imprint: |
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
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Returnable |
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