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The truth about (m)otherhood : choosing to be childfree /
"In a world full of messages about the joys of motherhood, ticking biological clocks, pronatalist ideologies and socio-cultural imperatives for women to mother, what does the alternative look like? That is, what is the experience of women who choose, or find themselves without progeny, when the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bradford, Ontario :
Demeter Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Helene A. Cummins
- Introduction : Contextualizing the choice to be childfree / Julie Anne Rodgers
- Literature review of childfree women. A critical review of the interdisciplinary literature on voluntary childlessness / Victoria Clarke, Nikki Hayfield, Naomi Moller, and Virginia Braun ; The WINKS : unravelling the meaning of (m)otherhood through a sociological lens / Helene A. Cummins ; Childless or free of children? Self-definition and being childfree / Stuart Gietel-Basten, Jasmijn Obispo, Clare Ridd, and Sonia Yuhui Zhang
- Gender/race transgressions and conventional views of otherhood. "Am I less of a woman because I don't have kids?" : Gender resistance and reification among childfree women / Amy Blackstone ; (M)otherhood : an autoethnographic exploration of being empowered and childfree / Cassandra D. Chaney ; Voluntary childfree women : abandoning infants by domestic servants and beggars in Ethiopia / Victoria Team
- Analyzing popular culture, French literature, and the Hebrew Bible on otherhood. Queering Cristina Yang : childfree women, disrupting heteronormativity, and success in failed femininity / Joselyn K. Leimbach ; Mother, interrupted : reframing motherhood in the wake of trauma in contemporary French women's writings / Nathalie Ségeral ; Childlessness among women in the Hebrew Bible : reframing their stories / Judith Dunkelberger Wouk
- Afterword / Judith Dunkelberger Wouk.