Abstract
This article presents the analysis of personal narratives of Mexican and Japanese single and childfree cisgender heterosexual individuals to explore how people who do not comply with heteronormativ...
Highlights
I present the results of a study focused on the personal narratives of Mexican and Japanese single and childfree1 cisgender heterosexual individuals
While in Mexico single and childfree people in their 30s, 40s, and older are a marginal portion of population, in Japan, the phenomenon has been a social and political concern for at least two decades, as the proportion of single childfree adults increases rapidly
Despite the limited scope of the study, the results show that hegemonic gender discourses and traditional gender roles continue to have an impact on how people construct their adult identities as men or women, even if they exercise their agency to delay or to reject such roles
Summary
I present the results of a study focused on the personal narratives of Mexican and Japanese single and childfree cisgender heterosexual individuals. The objective was to explore the ways in which people who do not comply with traditional gender roles related to marriage and parenthood make sense of themselves and build their identities amid social pressure to fulfill them to be considered complete adult men or women.
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