{"product_id":"9781800416970-pronatalism","title":"Pronatalism","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDiscourses and Counterdiscourses\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of the most original and powerful scholarly works written on gender and women’s power to choose\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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 women’s procreation while discouraging, or preventing, poor immigrant women and women of color from reproducing. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOther 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 author’s childlessness. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe author calls for solidarity between mothers and 'nothers'\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(her term for childless women) to defy the policing of women’s bodies worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59250442305910,"sku":"9781800416970","price":28.93,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_43978742.jpg?v=1794435917","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781800416970-pronatalism","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}