Communication Studies, Department of
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
6-2014
Citation
Published in Women’s Studies in Communication, 37:2 (2014), pp. 159–180 doi:10.1080/07491409.2014.909375
Abstract
This article employs participant definitional analysis, sensitized with feminist poststructuralism and critical ethnography, to understand three identity construction processes that members of childfree LiveJournal communities participate in: (a) naming childfreedom, (b) negotiating childfreedom, and (c) enacting childfreedom. I argue that childfree identities are contested and sometimes activist. Ultimately, I call for scholars to reconsider the definition of childfree to account for the complex and nuanced identities constructed by individuals who identify as such.
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