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From deviant choice to feminist issue: an historical analysis of scholarship on voluntary childlessness (1920-2013)

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: In this chapter the authors extend past narrative reviews by means of a systematic review and content analysis of literature going back to the earliest article they could locate (in the 1920s). The analysis allowed them to attend to socio-historical and geopolitical aspects shaping research about voluntary childlessness in relation to the politics of knowledge production, treating the published work as data, thus troubling 'the epistemic privilege of academic discourse' (Macleod, Bhatia, & Kessi, 2017, p. 309).

Source: Human Science Research Council SA

DOI: 10.14749/32381484

Author: Human Sciences Research Council

Language: English

Topic: Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

Funder: Human Sciences Research Council

OpenAlex ID: W7162214609

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