Exploring the reasons white middle-class women remain childfree in the South African context : a feminist social constructionist study

Exploring the reasons white middle-class women remain childfree in the South African context : a feminist social constructionist study

In this study I qualitatively explore how women who choose not to have children account for this choice in the South African context. I consider the reasons for women to remain childfree and the changing discourses of femininity that enable women to make the choice not to have children. I am also co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nebbe, Marrianne Barbara
Other Authors: Lynch, Ingrid
Published: University of Pretoria 2013
Subjects:
Childfree
Femininity
Motherhood
Discourse
Gender roles
Gender identity
Feminist social constructionism
Thematic analysis
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29172
Nebbe, MB 2011, Exploring the reasons white middle-class women remain childfree in the South African context : a feminist social constructionist study, MA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29172 >
http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10312012-132742/

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http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29172
Nebbe, MB 2011, Exploring the reasons white middle-class women remain childfree in the South African context : a feminist social constructionist study, MA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29172 >
http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10312012-132742/

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