This study contributes to our understanding of why women without a longing to have
children and who, in theory, have the possibility of refraining from parenthood still become …

Social expectations of women as mothers significantly impact the reproductive decision-
making process for those who have the potential for childbirth. This article focuses on …

This article proposes to explore the biographic accounts and everyday experiences of
cisgender women who, for various reasons and biopsychosocial conditions, are not …

The past decades have seen a drastic increase in the medicalization of childbirth, evidenced
by increasing Caesarean section rates in many Western countries. In a rare moment of …

Throughout history, melancholy and mourning are predominantly understood within the
tradition of psychopathology. Herein, melancholy is perceived as an ailing response to …

Based on in-depth interviews with 23 Israeli–Jewish women who regret becoming mothers,
this article seeks to broaden the body of knowledge that challenges Western contemporary …

In-depth interviews about the experience of being pregnant and having decided on abortion
were conducted with 10 young Swedish women. A phenomenological-hermeneutic study …

Throughout the book, I have illustrated how ideas about the women's roles as bearers and
carers who naturally put their children first are used to justify a range of different ideological …

In recent decades, there has been an increase in motherhood at an advanced age that has
raised several medical and social concerns. We conducted a qualitative interview study …

Central to patriarchal motherhood is the belief that all women want to become mothers, that
mothering comes naturally to women and that women experience mothering as fulfilling and …