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Voicing Voluntary Childlessness - Narratives of Non-Mothering in French (Paperback, New edition)
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Voicing Voluntary Childlessness - Narratives of Non-Mothering in French (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Studies in Contemporary Women's Writing, 3
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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.
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