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Negotiating Non-Motherhood: Representations, Perceptions, and Experiences

Negotiating Non-Motherhood: Representations, Perceptions, and Experiences

Björklund, Jenny
Kuzminskaite, Dovile
Rodgers, Julie

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Series: Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life

AnthropologyGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 3031666992
ISBN13: 9783031666995
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Nov 16 2025
Pages: 251
Language: English

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.

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