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Childfree across the Disciplines
Academic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children
Davinia Thornley
- 232 pages
- English
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Childfree across the Disciplines
Academic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children
Davinia Thornley
Ă propos de ce livre
Recently, childfree people have been foregrounded in mainstream media. More than seven percentof 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 toâsimultaneouslyâtraditional 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 This collection engages with these (mis)perceptions about childfree people: in media representations, demographics, historical documents, and both psychological and philosophical models.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 agencyâall 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 whoâor whatâa person can become.
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Table des matiĂšres
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Childfree across the Disciplines
- Part I: Childfree Subjectivities
- Part II: Childfree Representation
- Part III: Childfree Economic and Environmental Perspectives
- Part IV: Childfree Redefinitions
- Concluding Thoughts
- Notes on Contributors
- Index