Becoming, being and belonging to the womanhood : a qualitative inquiry with voluntary childfree women

Dominant discourses of womanhood and femininity equate woman and mother synonymously, implying that motherhood is a woman's destiny. Childfree women need to create identities divergent of these dominant discourses. Traditional and some feminist psychological theories of women's identity de...

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Main Author: Mortimore, Lisa Michelle.
Other Authors: Marshall, Elizabeth Anne
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1828/501