Format:
1 online resource (285 pages)
ISBN:
9781000033427
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Author biography -- Preface -- 28 May 2016, Stockholm. A woman out of place -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: breaking the silence -- Untold stories -- A personal and a public issue -- Aims of the book I: documenting childlessness -- Aims of the book II: reclaiming childlessness -- Reaching out -- Structure of the book and a warning -- Notes -- References -- Part I -- Unravelling silence -- Of silence and invisibility -- Notes -- References -- Section 1 T-word: the story behind my story -- Finding a place for "me" -- "Me" the researcher: where I come from and where I am going -- Notes -- References -- Section 2 The body and communication -- Note -- References -- Section 3 What my story brings to the debate -- Studies of (in)fertility and childlessness -- Understanding stigma -- Political communication from a minority perspective -- Notes -- References -- Section 4 Silence, deconstructed -- Reality and fiction: not an odd couple -- Explaining silence: when bodies, narratives, and suffering collide across the private-public domain -- References -- Section 5 Revealing the unspeakable: finding a different language -- Dreams and imagination -- Establishing a different relationship with the reader -- Notes -- References -- Part II -- Life journeys -- Folder 1 "About me"? -- Cutting the long story short -- We, vanilla flowers -- My (failed, of course) IVF story -- ICSI and the unexpected -- The other story: infertility, ethics, and the crisis of higher education in the UK -- Uncertainty and the unsustainability of hope -- Adoption is not an option and having children of a different kind -- The wrong solutions for no problem: Is life without children impossible? -- References -- Folder 2 Relationships -- Variable pressure.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367409944
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780367409944
Language:
English
