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

dc.contributor.author	Mortimore, Lisa Michelle.	en_US
dc.contributor.supervisor	Marshall, Elizabeth Anne	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2008-04-10T05:58:51Z
dc.date.available	2008-04-10T05:58:51Z
dc.date.copyright	2004	en_US
dc.date.issued	2008-04-10T05:58:51Z
dc.degree.department	Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies
dc.description.abstract	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 development are based on women's biology and their capacity to reproduce, either implicitly or explicitly. Women who choose to be childfree fall outside of these theoretical models and illuminate the necessity to revise or expand our theoretical understanding of women's identity development. In this qualitative inquiry, six voluntary childfree women were interviewed about their experience of being and becoming women. They shared their experiences of self discovery, living authentically, creating identities, and how being childflee impacts their sense of belonging to the womanhood.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1828/501
dc.subject.lcsh	Women -- Psychology	en_US
dc.subject.lcsh	Childlessness -- Psychological aspects	en_US
dc.title	Becoming, being and belonging to the womanhood : a qualitative inquiry with voluntary childfree women	en_US

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