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dc.contributor.authorLlewellyn, Dawn
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T09:00:55Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T09:00:55Z
dc.date.issued2016-02-19
dc.identifier.citationLlewellyn, D. (2016). Maternal Silences: Motherhood and Voluntary Childlessness in Contemporary Christianity. Religion and Gender, 6(1), 64-79.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2589-8051
dc.identifier.doi10.18352/rg.10131
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10034/623289
dc.description.abstractIn Christianity, there is an ideology of motherhood that pervades scripture, ritual, and doctrine, yet there is an academic silence that means relatively little space has been given to motherhood and mothering, and even less to voluntary childlessness, from a faith perspective. By drawing on qualitative in-depth interviews with Christian women living in Britain, narrating their experiences of motherhood and voluntary childlessness, I suggest there are also lived maternal silences encountered by women in contemporary Christianity. There is a maternal expectation produced through church teaching, liturgy and culture that constructs women as ‘maternal bodies’ (Gatrell 2008); this silences and marginalises women from articulating their complex relationship with religion, motherhood, and childlessness in ways that challenge their spiritual development. However, this article also introduces the everyday and intentional tactics women employ to disrupt the maternal expectation, and hereby interrupt the maternal silence.en_US
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherBrillen_US
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.religionandgender.org/articles/abstract/10.18352/rg.10131/en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en_US
dc.subjectMotherhooden_US
dc.subjectChildlessnessen_US
dc.subjectChristianityen_US
dc.titleMaternal Silences: Motherhood and Voluntary Childlessness in Christianityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.eissn1878-5417en_US
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Chesteren_US
dc.identifier.journalReligion and Genderen_US
dc.date.accepted2016
or.grant.openaccessYesen_US
rioxxterms.funderN/Aen_US
rioxxterms.identifier.projectUnfundeden_US
rioxxterms.versionNAen_US
rioxxterms.versionofrecordhttps://doi.org/10.18352/rg.10131en_US
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2016-02-19
rioxxterms.publicationdate2016-02-19
dc.dateAccepted2016
dc.date.deposited2020-04-01en_US
dc.indentifier.issn1878-5417en_US


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