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Titre(s) : Childfree across the disciplines [Texte imprimé] : academic and activist perspectives on not choosing children / edited by Davinia Thornley

Publication : New Brunswick (N.J.) : Rutgers University Press, copyright 2022

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (viii-222 p.) ; 23 cm

Note(s) : Bibliogr. en fin de chapitres. Index
"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 This collection engages with these (mis)perceptions about childfree people: in media representations, demographics, historical documents, and both psychological and philosophical models.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"

Autre(s) auteur(s) : Thornley, Davinia. Éditeur scientifique  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Sujet(s) : Personnes sans enfant  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  306.87 (23e éd.) = Relations intrafamiliales  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-1-9788-2308-2 (br.). - ISBN 1978823088

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb47053735s

Notice n° :  FRBNF47053735 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : Introduction :. Childfree across the disciplines / / Davinia Thornley ; ; Affirming social value : ; women without children / / Berenice M. Fisher ; ; Childfree minority stress : ; considerations for life at the margins of adulthood / / Melanie Elyse Brewster and Olivia Snow ; ; "You will change your mind" : ; the controlling function of microaggressions on the minds of parents and non-parents / / Adi Avivi ; ; Selfish is not a four-letter word : ; self-care and other-care among childfree women / / Amanda Michiko Shigihara ; ; Childfree in toyland / / Christopher Clausen ; ; The annual global childfree event : ; international childfree day / / Laura Carroll ; ; Reproductive villains : ; the representation of childfree women in mainstream cinema and television / / Natalia Cherjovaky ; ; Excerpts from An atypical chick : ; a gay man in a woman's body / / Rhonny Dam ; ; The breadwinner dilemma : ; the real and opportunity costs of children / / Laura S. Scott ; ; Voluntary childlessness : ; an upstream choice in the anthropocene / / Erika M. Arias ; ; Recognizing our womanhood, redefining femininity / / Laurie Lisle ; ; Refusing to be othered : ; redefining the "silent bodies" of childfree women / / Anna Gotlib ; ; Concluding thoughts / / Davinia Thornley