Maternal Silences: Motherhood and Voluntary Childlessness in Contemporary Christianity
In 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 qualita...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
[2016]
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Religion & gender
Year: 2016, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 64-79 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Christianity
/ Motherhood
/ Childlessness
/ Role expectation
/ Exclusion
/ History 2011-2013
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RelBib Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality FD Contextual theology KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NBE Anthropology NCF Sexual ethics |
Further subjects: | B
voluntary childlessness
B Caroline Gatrell B Christianity B Motherhood B maternal silences B maternal bodies |
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