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

Thornley, Davinia.

Childfree Across the Disciplines : Academic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (233 pages)

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 -- 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 -- 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.

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