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1 online resource (233 pages) |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Childfree across the Disciplines / Davinia Thornley -- Part I. Childfree Subjectivities -- 1. Affirming Social Value: Women without Children / Berenice M. Fisher -- 2. Childfree Minority Stress: Considerations for Life at the Margins of Adulthood / Melanie Elyse Brewster and Olivia Snow -- 3. "You Will Change Your Mind": The Controlling Function of Microaggressions on the Minds of Parents and Non-parents / Adi Avivi |
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4. Selfish Is Not a Four-Letter Word: Self-Care and Other-Care among Childfree Women / Amanda Michiko Shigihara -- Part II. Childfree Representation -- 5. Childfree in Toyland / Christopher Clausen -- 6. The Annual Global Childfree Event: International Childfree Day / Laura Carroll -- 7. Reproductive Villains: The Representation of Childfree Women in Mainstream Cinema and Television / Natalia Cherjovsky -- Part III. Childfree Economic and Environmental Perspectives -- 8. Excerpts from An Atypical Chick: A Gay Man in a Woman's Body / Rhonny Dam |
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9. The Breadwinner Dilemma: The Real and Opportunity Costs of Children / Laura S. Scott -- 10. Voluntary Childlessness: An Upstream Choice in the Anthropocene / Erika M. Arias -- Part IV. Childfree Redefinitions -- 11. Recognizing Our Womanhood, Redefining Femininity / Laurie Lisle -- 12. Refusing to Be Othered: Redefining the "Silent Bodies" of Childfree Women / Anna Gotlib -- Concluding Thoughts / Davinia Thornley -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
"Recently, childfree people have been foregrounded in mainstream media. More than seven percent of Western women choose to remain childfree and this figure is increasing. Being childfree challenges the 'procreation imperative' residing at the center of our hetero-normative understandings, occupying an uneasy position in relation to-simultaneously-traditional academic ideologies and prevalent social norms. After all, as Adi Avivi recognizes, "if a woman is not a mother, the patriarchal social order is in danger." This collection engages with these (mis)perceptions about childfree people: in media representations, demographics, historical documents, and both psychological and philosophical models. Foundational pieces from established experts on the childfree choice--Rhonny Dam, Laura Lisle, Christopher Clausen, and Berenice Fisher--appear alongside both activist manifestos and original scholarly work, comprehensively brought together. Academics and activists in various disciplines and movements also riff on the childfree life: its implications, its challenges, its conversations, and its agency-all in relation to its inevitability in the 21st century. Childfree across the Disciplines unequivocally takes a stance supporting the subversive potential of the childfree choice, allowing readers to understand childfreedom as a sense of continuing potential in who-or what-a person can become"-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
childless, childfree, mainstream media, Western women, procreation, procreation imperative, heteronormative, hetero-normative, heteronormativity, social norms, Adi Avivi, motherhood, mother, patriarchy, patriarchal, stereotype, gender stereotypes, women's right, feminist, feminism, activists, childfreedom, social values, gender roles, women without children, microaggressions, parents, non-parents, self-care, childcare, reproduction, reproductive, mainstream cinema, representation of women, representation of childless women, television, An Atypical Chick: A Gay Man in a Woman's Body, cost of children, womanhood, feminine, femininity, othered, stigma, conceive, pregnant, pregnancy, fertility, fertility clinic, infertility, fulfillment, life goals, life milestone, giving birth, give birth, babies, children, child |
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Childfree choice.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
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Childfree choice
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Electronic books
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Thornley, Davinia.
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Fisher, Berenice
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Brewster, Melanie
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Snow, Olivia
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Avivi, Adi
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Shigihara, Amanda Michiko
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Clausen, Christopher
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Carroll, Laura.
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Cherjovsky, Natalia
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Dam, Rhonny
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| ISBN |
1978823126 |
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9781978823129 |
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9781978823082 |
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1978823088 |
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