Anger and network resistance: Women defying the reproductive mandate
- Carolina Rojas-Madrigal University of Costa Rica https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4252-2598
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Abstract
This paper presents a feminist digital ethnography, grounded in standpoint theory and intersectionality, with the goal of conducting research using information and communication technology (ICT) to analyze the experiences and resistance strategies of childfree women in Facebook groups. After analysing two hundred and two posts from two childfree groups, it can be concluded that participants have established a secure space on the platform for expressing their anger and condemning unjust differential and discriminatory treatment faced for choosing not to be mothers. Interaction within these two groups fosters resistance against pronatalism through critiques of the romanticisation and fetishisation of motherhood as well as the rejection of reproductive harassment.
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