Natalie Edwards is Senior Lecturer in French Studies and a member of the Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She holds a PhD from Northwestern University and specializes in contemporary French and Francophone literature, autobiography, gender studies and visual culture. She is the author of Shifting Subjects: Plural Subjectivity in Contemporary Francophone Women’s Autobiography (2011) and co-editor most recently of Framing French Culture: Photography and the Visual Arts (2015).

"Voicing Voluntary Childlessness est d'une indeniable importance pour l'etude de la litterature contemporaine des femmes en ce qu'il s'attache aux alternatives a une identite feminine normative et touche a un sujet encore tabou qu'est le refus ou le non-desir d'etre mere." (Evelyne Ledoux-Beaugrand, Romanische Forschungen 129 / 2017)

• Contents: Perspectives on Voluntary Childlessness – Theorising Voluntary Childlessness – Psychoanalysing Voluntary Childlessness – Expressions of Voluntary Childlessness – Linda Lê’s Epistolary Innovation: À l’enfant que je n’aurai pas – Jane Sautière’s Autofictional Explorations: Nullipare – The Struggle of Personal Criticism: Lucie Joubert’s L’Envers du landau – The Ageing Voluntarily Childless Woman: Madeleine Chapsal’s La Femme sans.

Natalie Edwards is Senior Lecturer in French Studies and a member of the Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She holds a PhD from Northwestern University and specializes in contemporary French and Francophone literature, autobiography, gender studies and visual culture. She is the author of Shifting Subjects: Plural Subjectivity in Contemporary Francophone Women’s Autobiography (2011) and co-editor most recently of Framing French Culture: Photography and the Visual Arts (2015).

"Voicing Voluntary Childlessness est d'une indeniable importance pour l'etude de la litterature contemporaine des femmes en ce qu'il s'attache aux alternatives a une identite feminine normative et touche a un sujet encore tabou qu'est le refus ou le non-desir d'etre mere." (Evelyne Ledoux-Beaugrand, Romanische Forschungen 129 / 2017)

• Contents: Perspectives on Voluntary Childlessness – Theorising Voluntary Childlessness – Psychoanalysing Voluntary Childlessness – Expressions of Voluntary Childlessness – Linda Lê’s Epistolary Innovation: À l’enfant que je n’aurai pas – Jane Sautière’s Autofictional Explorations: Nullipare – The Struggle of Personal Criticism: Lucie Joubert’s L’Envers du landau – The Ageing Voluntarily Childless Woman: Madeleine Chapsal’s La Femme sans.

Natalie Edwards is Senior Lecturer in French Studies and a member of the Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She holds a PhD from Northwestern University and specializes in contemporary French and Francophone literature, autobiography, gender studies and visual culture. She is the author of Shifting Subjects: Plural Subjectivity in Contemporary Francophone Women’s Autobiography (2011) and co-editor most recently of Framing French Culture: Photography and the Visual Arts (2015).

"Voicing Voluntary Childlessness est d'une indeniable importance pour l'etude de la litterature contemporaine des femmes en ce qu'il s'attache aux alternatives a une identite feminine normative et touche a un sujet encore tabou qu'est le refus ou le non-desir d'etre mere." (Evelyne Ledoux-Beaugrand, Romanische Forschungen 129 / 2017)

• Contents: Perspectives on Voluntary Childlessness – Theorising Voluntary Childlessness – Psychoanalysing Voluntary Childlessness – Expressions of Voluntary Childlessness – Linda Lê’s Epistolary Innovation: À l’enfant que je n’aurai pas – Jane Sautière’s Autofictional Explorations: Nullipare – The Struggle of Personal Criticism: Lucie Joubert’s L’Envers du landau – The Ageing Voluntarily Childless Woman: Madeleine Chapsal’s La Femme sans.