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Naturligt barnfri : Kroppens betydelse i frivilligt barnlösas positionering

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Naturligt barnfri : Kroppens betydelse i frivilligt barnlösas positionering
بيانات النشر: Department of Thematic Studies – Technology and Social Change, Linköpings University, Linköping, Sweden Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden Linköping 2010
تفاصيل مُضافة: Peterson, Helen
Engwall, Kristina
نوع الوثيقة: Electronic Resource
مستخلص: This article reports on the results from the two first studies on voluntary childlessness in Sweden and draws on interviews with 30 childfree women and 6 men. The article explores how they managed to create a legitimate childfree position in a soci-ety permeated by pronatalistic norms proclaiming parenthood to be self-evident in an adult normal life. Failure to conform to these norms results in being negatively stereotyped as selfish, abnormal and a childhater. Women who do not wish to become a mother also risk being called into question as "real" women since the feminine identity and women's social roles are conflated with ideas about maternalism. Instead of explaining their childlessness with external factors most of the interviewees stressed the fact that they never had the desire to have a child. Insisting on that they always had known they did not want children, they did not even experience they had made a choice not to have a child. in this way they positioned themselves as "naturally childfree". To some extent the childfree women and men agreed with pronatal-istic norms that wanting a child is the natural order of things and that a woman who mothers also has achieved her biological destiny. Although acknowledging an irresistible drive towards reproduction in most people, our informants expressed the total lack of this instinct in their own bodies. However, they also left the door open to the possibility that this biological urge could suddenly appear – therefore rejecting sterilization as being a too drastic contracep-tive choice. Important for the naturally childfree position is thus the simultaneous acceptance of, and detachment from, the biological reproductive urge.
مصطلحات الفهرس: Childfree, natural position, body, biological urge, reproduction, frivilligt barnlös, barnfri position, barnlängtan, kropp, biologisk drift, Gender Studies, Genusstudier, Article in journal, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, text
URL: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-80163
Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, 1654-5443, 2010, 3, s. 5-28
الإتاحة: Open access content. Open access content
info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
ملاحظة: Swedish
أرقام أخرى: UPE oai:DiVA.org:oru-80163
0000-0002-5171-2783
1234040395
المصدر المساهم: UPPSALA UNIV LIBR
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