This book centers on women who voluntarily forgo having and raising children. Grounded in a discourse approach,itexamines reproductive decision-making in the context of pronatalist discourses (‘maternal instinct’, ‘biological clock’ and ‘having it all’) as well as anti-natalist eugenic discourses.
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Author(s): Sarah Benesch
Number of pages: 182
Collection: Critical Language and Literacy Studies