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Childfree and Happy : Transforming the Rhetoric of Women's Reproductive Choices by Courtney Adams Wooten (2023, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity Press of Colorado
ISBN-101646424387
ISBN-139781646424382
eBay Product ID (ePID)7060633530
Product Key Features
Number of Pages242 Pages
Publication NameChildfree and Happy : Transforming the Rhetoric of Women's Reproductive Choices
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2023
SubjectSociology / General, Gender Studies, Parenting / Motherhood, Rhetoric
TypeTextbook
AuthorCourtney Adams Wooten
Subject AreaFamily & Relationships, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight10.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2023-012094
Reviews"An important contribution to the field. Mothering rhetorics are a key component of feminist and gender rhetorics and deserve a platform beyond the niche." --Kirsti Cole, Minnesota State University, Mankato
SynopsisChildfree and Happy examines how millennia of reproductive beliefs (or doxa ) have positioned women who choose not to have children as deviant or outside the norm., Childfree and Happy examines how millennia of reproductive beliefs (or doxa ) have positioned women who choose not to have children as deviant or outside the norm. Considering affect and emotion alongside the lived experiences of women who have chosen not to have children, Courtney Adams Wooten offers a new theoretical lens to feminist rhetorical scholars' examinations of reproductive rhetorics and how they circulate through women's lives by paying attention not just to spoken or written beliefs but also to affectual circulations of reproductive doxa. Through interviews with thirty-four childfree women and analysis of childfree rhetorics circulating in historical and contemporary texts and events, this book demonstrates how childfree women individually and collectively try to speak back to common beliefs about their reproductive experiences, even as they struggle to make their identities legible in a sociocultural context that centers motherhood. Childfree and Happy theorizes how affect and rhetoric work together to circulate reproductive doxa by using Sara Ahmed's theories of gendered happiness scripts to analyze what reproductive doxa is embedded in those scripts and how they influence rhetoric by, about, and around childfree women. Delving into how childfree women position their decision not to have children and the different types of interactions they have with others about this choice, including family members, friends, colleagues, and medical professionals, Childfree and Happy also explores how communities that make space for alternative happiness scripts form between childfree women and those who support them. It will be of interest to scholars in the fields of the rhetoric of motherhood/mothering, as well as feminist rhetorical studies.
LC Classification NumberHQ755.8.W677 2023
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