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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Dam, Rhonny, Cherjovsky, Natalia, Carroll, Laura, Clausen, Christopher, Shigihara, Amanda Michiko, Avivi, Adi, Snow, Olivia, Brewster, Melanie, Fisher, Berenice, Thornley, Davinia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Childfree choice.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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