UID:
almahu_9949546530202882
Format:
1 online resource (236 p.) :
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1 b&w iillustration, 3 tables
ISBN:
9781978823129
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9783110993899
Content:
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 This collection engages with these (mis)perceptions about childfree people: in media representations, demographics, historical documents, and both psychological and philosophical models.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, Laurie 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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction: Childfree across the Disciplines --
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Part I Childfree Subjectivities --
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1 Affirming Social Value: Women without Children --
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2 Childfree Minority Stress: Considerations for Life at the Margins of Adulthood --
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3 "You Will Change Your Mind" The Controlling Function of Microaggressions on the Minds of Parents and Non-parents --
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4 Selfish Is Not a Four-Letter Word: Self-Care and Other-Care among Childfree Women --
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5 Childfree in Toyland --
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6 The Annual Global Childfree Event: International Childfree Day --
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7 Reproductive Villains: The Representation of Childfree Women in Mainstream Cinema and Television --
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Part III Childfree Economic and Environmental Perspectives --
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8 Excerpts from An Atypical Chick: A Gay Man in a Woman's Body --
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9 The Breadwinner Dilemma: The Real and Opportunity Costs of Children --
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10 Voluntary Childlessness: An Upstream Choice in the Anthropocene --
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Part IV Childfree Redefinitions --
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11 Recognizing Our Womanhood, Redefining Femininity --
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12 Refusing to Be Othered: Redefining the "Silent Bodies" of Childfree Women --
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Concluding Thoughts --
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Notes on Contributors --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110994810
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993752
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110993738
In:
Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110766479
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.36019/9781978823129
URL:
https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978823129?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978823129