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Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Women''s Reproductive Choices

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By (author): Courtney Adams Wooten

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 womens 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 Ahmeds 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. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 360g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Jun 2023
  • Publisher: University Press of Colorado
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781646424382

About Courtney Adams Wooten

Courtney Adams Wooten is associate chair of composition and assistant professor of writing and rhetoric at George Mason University. She is a coeditor of The Things We Carry and WPAs in Transition and her work has been published in College English Composition Studies WPA Academic Labor: Research and Artistry Harlot and Peitho as well as in several edited collections.

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