Voicing Voluntary Childlessness: Narratives of Non-Mothering in French (Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing)
By Natalie Edwards.
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...
ISBN(s)
9783034318099
