Book review: Sarah Benesch,Pronatalism: Discourses and Counterdiscourses

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Benesch S (2025) Pronatalism: Discourses and Counterdiscourses. Multilingual Matters.

Brady MJ (2025) Citizen mothers and others: Natalist discourse and politics in the US after Trump. Social Identities. Epub ahead of print.

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Cooper M (2017) Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism. Zone Books.

Klecker C (2023) Childfree female characters: Narrating pronatalism. JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies 5(1): 1–18.

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Saluk S (2023) Fraternal natalism: Demographic anxieties and the righteous state in Turkey. In: Women’s studies international forum, Pergamum, Turkey, vol. 98.

Stephani N (2025) You still want to have kids, right? Representation of childfree women in Indonesian leading online news outlets. Media Asia 52(1): 102–125.

Szalma I Herke B (2025) Interconnections between anti-immigration and pronatalist family policy discourse in Hungary. European Societies. Epub ahead of print.