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Rodgers, Julie (2018) On the Margins of Motherhood: Choosing to Be Child-Free in Lucie Joubert’s L’Envers du landau (2010). Women: A Cultural Review, 29 (1). pp. 75-96. ISSN 0957-4042
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Abstract
Voluntarily choosing not to have children is increasingly becoming a preferred life
option in contemporary society. Yet there remains an inherent suspicion and pitying of
women who do not follow what is still perceived, despite several waves of feminism, as
their biological destiny. Such choices are considered ‘unspeakable’ by the dominant pronatalist discourse that currently presides in western advanced-capitalist society. This
article attempts to challenge and reverse prescribed beliefs about motherhood and create a
textual space for those who have been denigrated for choosing not to become mothers
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | French Canadian literature; Lucie Joubert; motherhood; pro-natalism; voluntary childlessness; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures > French |
| Item ID: | 13038 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1080/09574042.2018.1425537 |
| Depositing User: | Julie Rodgers |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jun 2020 16:26 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Women: A Cultural Review |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Related URLs: | |
| URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/13038 |
| 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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