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Negotiating non-motherhoodrepresentations, perceptions, and experiences /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Negotiating non-motherhoodedited by Jenny Björklund, Dovilė Kuzminskaitė, Julie Rodgers.
Reminder of title:	representations, perceptions, and experiences /
other author:	Björklund, Jenny.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	xvii, 251 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Childlessness.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66697-1
ISBN:	9783031666971$q(electronic bk.)

Negotiating non-motherhoodrepresentations, perceptions, and experiences /
Negotiating non-motherhoodrepresentations, perceptions, and experiences /[electronic resource] :edited by Jenny Björklund, Dovilė Kuzminskaitė, Julie Rodgers. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xvii, 251 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life,2731-6459. - Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life..

Chapter 1. Conceptualising Non-Motherhood -- Chapter 2. Reclaiming Non-Motherhood: Abjection, Laughter, and Failure in Twenty-First-Century Swedish Narratives of Childlessness -- Chapter 3. (Non)-Motherhood and the Narrative of Self in Nuria Labari's The Best Mother of the World -- Chapter 4. Meanings, Experiences, and Perspectives on Non-Motherhood in a Spanish Context -- Chapter 5. Alternative Happy Endings? A Qualitative Study of Non-Mothers in Lithuania -- Chapter 6. The Incomplete Mother as Non-Mother: A Study of Secondary Infertility in Helen Davies' More Love to Give -- Chapter 7. Pregnancy Loss in Contemporary Italophone Literature -- Chapter 8. Infertility, Desire for Motherhood, and Surrogacy in Miguel de Unamuno's Dos madres -- Chapter 9. Autonomy, Autocreation and Agency: Radical Non-Motherhood in Amandine Gay's Une poupée en chocolat (2021) -- Chapter 10. Choosing Childlessness: Familial and National Acts of Resistance in Preti Taneja's We That Are Young (2017) -- Chapter 11. Voluntary Childlessness in the Spanish Graphic Novel: Irene Olmo's No quiero ser mama (2020) -- Chapter 12. Adapting (to) Non-Motherhood: Ulrike Kofler's film What We Wanted (2020)

Open access.

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. Jenny Björklund is Professor of Gender Studies at Uppsala University. She is the author of Maternal Abandonment and Queer Resistance in Twenty-First Century Swedish Literature (2021) and Lesbianism in Swedish Literature: An Ambiguous Affair (2014), as well as the co-editor of several volumes including New Dimensions of Diversity in Nordic Culture and Society (2016) She has published extensively on motherhood and family in contemporary Swedish literature, gender and sexuality in Nordic literature and film, women and modernism, and literature and embodiment. Dovilė Kuzminskaitė is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Philology at the Institute for Literary, Cultural, and Translation Studies at Vilnius University, Lithuania. Her research interests include contemporary Latin American literature, experimental literature, and identity problems depicted in literary works. Julie Rodgers is Associate Professor of French at Maynooth University, Ireland. Her research focuses on the production and reception of maternal counternarratives and incorporates the study of a wide range of experiences that do not correspond to the normative, patriarchal script of motherhood.

ISBN: 9783031666971$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-66697-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

998426
Childlessness.

LC Class. No.: HQ755.8

Dewey Class. No.: 306.87

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