Childfree Across the Disciplines : Academic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children / Davinia Thornley [and nine others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thornley, Davinia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Childfree choice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"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 This collection engages with these (mis)perceptions about childfree people: in media representations, demographics, historical documents, and both psychological and philosophical models.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"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

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

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

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

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-9788-2310-X

1-9788-2312-6

OCLC:

1315643576