The majority of the academic literature on non-motherhood is dominated by a clear distinction between voluntary and involuntary childlessness. Recently, the prestigious Palgrave Macmillan publishing house has published a collection of articles entitled 'Negotiating Non-Motherhood: Representations, Perceptions, and Experiences', which seeks to break down this distinction and to look at what the experiences of childlessness have in common and to see childlessness as a complex sociocultural phenomenon. The collection contains articles by researchers from different disciplines within the international Mothernet project, who examine childlessness in different cultural and national contexts. The volume is edited by Jenny Björklund (Uppsala University, Sweden), Dovilė Kuzminskaitė (Vilnius University, Lithuania) and Julie Rodgers (Meinut University, Ireland),
The Mothernet project is launched in 2020 with funding from EU Horizon 2020 TWINNING. The project brought together the Thinking Motherhood group at Vilnius University, Mother Anyway at Uppsala University and Motherhood at the University of Meignut. The MotherNet project was coordinated by Prof. Dr. Eglė Kačkutė-Hagan, a researcher at the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University, who is also the leader of the group Thinking Motherhood. One of the authors of the publication Negotiating Non-motherhood: Representations, Perceptions and Experiences is Dovilė Kuzminskaitė, PhD, Associate Professor at the Institute of Literature, Culture and Translation Studies, Faculty of Philology, and belongs to the VU group Thinking Motherhood.
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