Childfree Across the Disciplines: Academic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children

Herausgeber: Thornley, Davinia

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Produktbeschreibung

Childfree across the Disciplines: Academic and Activist Perspectives on  Not Choosing Children focuses on the relationship between childfreedom, social ideologies, and community activism. The authors ask (and frequently answer) the question: how do childfree people negotiate their subjectivity in a changing demographic, economic, media-saturated cultural landscape?  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978823099
• ISBN-10: 1978823096
• Artikelnr.: 62353586

Autorenporträt

DAVINIA THORNLEY is a senior lecturer in film, media, and communication studies at the University of Otago in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the editor of True Event Adaptation: Scripting Real Lives and the author of Cinema, Cross-Cultural Collaboration, and Criticism: Filming on an Uneven Field.  

Inhaltsangabe

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