Isbn: 9781800416970 - pronatalism: discourses and counterdiscourses: 33 (critical language and literacy studies) (2 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. One of the most original and powerful scholarly works written on gender and womens power to chooseThis book addresses a topic that until recently had been underexplored: women who voluntarily forgo having and raising children. Grounded in a discourse approach, it examines reproductive decision-making in the context of pronatalist discourses, such as 'maternal instinct', 'biological clock' and 'having it all', that encourage procreation in some while discouraging it in others. To contextualize pronatalism sociohistorically, the book also examines the relationship between pro- and anti-natalist discourses that emerged during the 20th-century eugenics movement in the United States, especially its promotion of white middle-class womens procreation while discouraging, or preventing, poor immigrant women and women of color from reproducing. Other topics include online communities devoted to childfreedom, 20th- and 21st-century women authors who wrote about their decision not to procreate, responses of academic women in the field of applied linguistics to questions about their childlessness, and a personal narrative of the authors childlessness. The author calls for solidarity between mothers and 'nothers' (her term for childless women) to defy the policing of womens bodies worldwide. This book centers on women who voluntarily forgo having and raising children. Grounded in a discourse approach, it examines reproductive decision-making in the context of pronatalist discourses (maternal instinct, biological clock and having it all) as well as anti-natalist eugenic discourses. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …