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 understandi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Thornley, Davinia, Fisher, Berenice, Brewster, Melanie, Snow, Olivia, Avivi, Adi, Shigihara, Amanda Michiko, Clausen, Christopher, Carroll, Laura, Cherjovsky, Natalia, Dam, Rhonny
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : 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.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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 This collection engages with these (mis)perceptions about childfree people: in media representations, demographics, historical documents, and both psychological and philosophical models.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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (233 pages)
ISBN:1978823126
9781978823129
9781978823082
1978823088

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