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

Childfree across the Disciplines : : Academic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children / / ed. by Davinia Thornley.

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 a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
MitwirkendeR:
Arias, Erika M.,
Avivi, Adi,
Brewster, Melanie Elyse,
Brewster, Melanie,
Carroll, Laura,
Cherjovsky, Natalia,
Clausen, Christopher,
Dam, Rhonny,
Fisher, Berenice M.,
Fisher, Berenice,
Gotlib, Anna,
Lisle, Laurie,
Scott, Laura S.,
Shigihara, Amanda Michiko,
Snow, Olivia,
Thornley, Davinia,
HerausgeberIn:
Thornley, Davinia,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (236 p.) :; 1 b&w iillustration, 3 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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