Childfree across the Disciplines

Childfree across the Disciplines

Academic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children

Brewster, Melanie; Thornley, Davinia; Shigihara, Amanda Michiko; Clausen, Christopher; Carroll, Laura; Avivi, Adi; Cherjovsky, Natalia; Fisher, Berenice; Snow, Olivia; Thornley, Davinia

Rutgers University Press

04/2022

232

Mole

Inglês

9781978823082

15 a 20 dias

316

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List of Figures and Tables
Introduction: Childfree across the Disciplines by Davinia Thornley
Part I: Childfree Subjectivities
Chapter 1. Affirming Social Value: Women without Children [republished] by Berenice Fisher
Chapter 2. Childfree Minority Stress by Melanie Brewster and Olivia Snow
Chapter 3. "You will Change Your Mind": The Controlling Function of Microaggressions on the Minds of Parents and Non-Parents by Adi Avivi
Chapter 4. Selfish is Not a Four-Letter Word: Self-Care and Other-Care among Childfree Women by Amanda Michiko Shigihara
Part II: Childfree Representation
Chapter 5. Childfree in Toyland [republished] by Christopher Clausen
Chapter 6. The Annual Global Childfree Event: International Childfree Day by Laura Carroll
Chapter 7. Reproductive Villains: The Representation of Childfree Women in Mainstream Cinema and Television by Natalia Cherjovsky
Part III: Childfree Economic and Environmental Perspectives
Chapter 8. Excerpts from An Atypical Chick: A Gay Man in a Woman's Body [republished] by Rhonny Dam
Chapter 9. The Breadwinner Dilemma: The Real and Opportunity Cost of Children by Laura S. Scott
Chapter 10. Voluntary Childlessness: An Upstream Choice in the Anthropocene by Erika M. Arias
Part IV: Childfree Redefinitions
Chapter 11: Recognizing Our Womanhood, Redefining Femininity [republished] by Laurie Lisle
Chapter 12. Refusing to be Othered: Re-defining the "Silent Bodies" of Childfree Women by Anna Gotlib
Concluding Thoughts by Davinia Thornley
Notes on Contributors
Index
childless; childfree; mainstream media; Western women; procreation; procreation imperative; heteronormative; hetero-normative; heteronormativity; social norms; Adi Avivi; motherhood; mother; patriarchy; patriarchal; stereotype; gender stereotypes; women's right; feminist; feminism; activists; childfreedom; social values; gender roles; women without children; microaggressions; parents; non-parents; self-care; childcare; reproduction; reproductive; mainstream cinema; representation of women; representation of childless women; television; An Atypical Chick: A Gay Man in a Woman's Body; cost of children; womanhood; feminine; femininity; othered; stigma; conceive; pregnant; pregnancy; fertility; fertility clinic; infertility; fulfillment