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Full Description
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.
Contents
Contents: Perspectives on Voluntary Childlessness - Theorising Voluntary Childlessness - Psychoanalysing Voluntary Childlessness - Expressions of Voluntary Childlessness - Linda Lê's Epistolary Innovation: À l'enfant que je n'aurai pas - Jane Sautière's Autofictional Explorations: Nullipare - The Struggle of Personal Criticism: Lucie Joubert's L'Envers du landau - The Ageing Voluntarily Childless Woman: Madeleine Chapsal's La Femme sans.
