Heffernan, Valerie and Stone, Katherine (2021) #regrettingmotherhood in germany: Feminism, motherhood, and culture. Signs, 46 (2). pp. 337-360. ISSN 0097-9740

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Abstract

In April 2015, Orna Donath’sSignsarticle“Regretting Motherhood: ASociopolitical Analysis”provoked a storm of controversy in mainstreamand social media in Germany that continues to resonate. The #regretting-motherhood debate—so called because of tweets using the English-languagehashtag to highlight their contribution—illustrates the intense public interestin motherhood in contemporary Germany. Our article analyzes the debatewithin the German context and uses the controversy to raise broader ques-tions about the impact of maternal myths on women’s experiences and fertil-ity decisions.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	motherhood; regret; ambivalence; contemporary German culture;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures > German
Item ID:	13763
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1086/710807
Depositing User:	Valerie Heffernan
Date Deposited:	04 Jan 2021 10:25
Journal or Publication Title:	Signs
Publisher:	The University of Chicago Press
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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