Childfree across the Disciplines : Academic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children /

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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, o...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Arias, Erika M. (Contribuidor), Avivi, Adi (Contribuidor), Brewster, Melanie Elyse (Contribuidor), Brewster, Melanie (Contribuidor), Carroll, Laura (Contribuidor), Cherjovsky, Natalia (Contribuidor), Clausen, Christopher (Contribuidor), Dam, Rhonny (Contribuidor), Fisher, Berenice M. (Contribuidor), Fisher, Berenice (Contribuidor), Gotlib, Anna (Contribuidor), Lisle, Laurie (Contribuidor), Scott, Laura S. (Contribuidor), Shigihara, Amanda Michiko (Contribuidor), Snow, Olivia (Contribuidor), Thornley, Davinia (Contribuidor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Childfree choice.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
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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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Childfree across the Disciplines
  • Part I Childfree Subjectivities
  • 1 Affirming Social Value: Women without Children
  • 2 Childfree Minority Stress: Considerations for Life at the Margins of Adulthood
  • 3 "You Will Change Your Mind" The Controlling Function of Microaggressions on the Minds of Parents and Non-parents
  • 4 Selfish Is Not a Four-Letter Word: Self-Care and Other-Care among Childfree Women
  • 5 Childfree in Toyland
  • 6 The Annual Global Childfree Event: International Childfree Day
  • 7 Reproductive Villains: The Representation of Childfree Women in Mainstream Cinema and Television
  • Part III Childfree Economic and Environmental Perspectives
  • 8 Excerpts from An Atypical Chick: A Gay Man in a Woman's Body
  • 9 The Breadwinner Dilemma: The Real and Opportunity Costs of Children
  • 10 Voluntary Childlessness: An Upstream Choice in the Anthropocene
  • Part IV Childfree Redefinitions
  • 11 Recognizing Our Womanhood, Redefining Femininity
  • 12 Refusing to Be Othered: Redefining the "Silent Bodies" of Childfree Women
  • Concluding Thoughts
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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