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Barnfri - En kvalitativ innehållsanalys av kvinnors berättelser om att leva utan barn

Nielsen, Lisa LU and Gerthsson, Linda LU (2014) SOPA63 20141
School of Social Work
Abstract
The aim of this study is to utilize a qualitative content analysis in order to examine the stories of twelve childfree women featured in the anthology "Nobody's Mother" [translated title] (2013). When designing this study we have focused on the reasons to why these women have chosen not to have any children and how they experience social expectations related to motherhood. Swedish welfare policy is designed to benefit families with children and is thus inherently pronatalistic, resulting in a strong connection between public policy, family and reproduction. The coding process highlighted several salient themes which were then analyzed according to Hirdman´s gender system and Goffman´s theory of stigma. The women testify that the... (More)
The aim of this study is to utilize a qualitative content analysis in order to examine the stories of twelve childfree women featured in the anthology "Nobody's Mother" [translated title] (2013). When designing this study we have focused on the reasons to why these women have chosen not to have any children and how they experience social expectations related to motherhood. Swedish welfare policy is designed to benefit families with children and is thus inherently pronatalistic, resulting in a strong connection between public policy, family and reproduction. The coding process highlighted several salient themes which were then analyzed according to Hirdman´s gender system and Goffman´s theory of stigma. The women testify that the environment stands adverse to their choice and that they experience themselves as being deviated from the norm. This can according Goffman´s theory be seen as stigmatization of childfree women in today´s society. Hirdmans gender system visualized the gendered stereotypes in the women’s stories regarding their motives to be childfree. It also visualized their experiences of the pronatalistic norm, which show that women and motherhood are strongly interconnected. (Less)
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author
Nielsen, Lisa LU and Gerthsson, Linda LU
supervisor
organization
course
SOPA63 20141
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Voluntarily Childfree, Sweden, Pronatalism, Gender System, Stigma
language
Swedish
id
4460243
date added to LUP
2014-06-09 09:20:41
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2014-06-09 09:20:41
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  abstract     = {{The aim of this study is to utilize a qualitative content analysis in order to examine the stories of twelve childfree women featured in the anthology "Nobody's Mother" [translated title] (2013). When designing this study we have focused on the reasons to why these women have chosen not to have any children and how they experience social expectations related to motherhood. Swedish welfare policy is designed to benefit families with children and is thus inherently pronatalistic, resulting in a strong connection between public policy, family and reproduction. The coding process highlighted several salient themes which were then analyzed according to Hirdman´s gender system and Goffman´s theory of stigma. The women testify that the environment stands adverse to their choice and that they experience themselves as being deviated from the norm. This can according Goffman´s theory be seen as stigmatization of childfree women in today´s society. Hirdmans gender system visualized the gendered stereotypes in the women’s stories regarding their motives to be childfree. It also visualized their experiences of the pronatalistic norm, which show that women and motherhood are strongly interconnected.}},
  author       = {{Nielsen, Lisa and Gerthsson, Linda}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Barnfri - En kvalitativ innehållsanalys av kvinnors berättelser om att leva utan barn}},
  year         = {{2014}},
}