The purpose of this study is to examine how some people who do not want children construct their identity in a context where children is the norm. The study therefore focuses on how they legitimate and present their identity in this context. 4 women and 2 men with the intention to remain childless have therefore been interviewed, and from these interviews I analyze and describe how intentional childless people construct their identity. My theoretical framework is built up by discourse psychology and gender/heterosexual hegemony theories. The thesis shows that it is hard for the intentional childless to construct their identity as once and for all given, the identity is constructed as a “norm” against the norm, as well as affected by the norm. The intentional childless in this study construct their identity by using different discourses and place themselves in a context. The use of discourses tend to describe intentional childless in a certain way, often in a good way, and here is also a rhetorical language use in practice.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:liu-12316 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Forsberg, Camilla |
| Publisher | Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och välfärdsstudier, Institutionen för samhälls- och välfärdsstudier |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
Page generated in 0.0017 seconds