Childlessness In The Age Of Communication

Author : Cristina Archetti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000033427

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Childlessness in the Age of Communication by Cristina Archetti Pdf

Cristina Archetti started researching childlessness after being diagnosed with "unexplained infertility". She soon discovered that, although involuntary childlessness affects an increasing number of women and men across the world, this topic is shrouded taboo and shame. This book is both a first-person reflection about the existential questions posed by involuntary childlessness and a readable account of the way the silence surrounding this topic is socially and politically constructed. Revealing the invisible mechanisms that, from the microscopic details of everyday life to policy, make up the structure of silence around childlessness, Archetti demonstrates what it means not to have children in a society that is organized around families. Through a prose that mixes analysis, excerpts of interviews, media fragments, and evocative writing, she develops a new language of feeling-in-the-body fit for the twenty-first century and exposes the devastating effects infertility has on relationships, identity, health and well-being, in societies that fetishize parenthood. Childlessness in the Age of Communication draws upon a range of disciplines and fields including sociology, health, gender and sexuality studies, communication, politics and anthropology. It is a book for all those interested in childlessness and innovative qualitative research methodologies.

Author : Michaela Kreyenfeld,Dirk Konietzka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319446677

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Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, Causes, and Consequences by Michaela Kreyenfeld,Dirk Konietzka Pdf

This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book provides an overview of childlessness throughout Europe. It offers a collection of papers written by leading demographers and sociologists that examine contexts, causes, and consequences of childlessness in countries throughout the region.The book features data from all over Europe. It specifically highlights patterns of childlessness in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Austria and Switzerland. An additional chapter on childlessness in the United States puts the European experience in perspective. The book offers readers such insights as the determinants of lifelong childlessness, whether governments can and should counteract increasing childlessness, how the phenomenon differs across social strata and the role economic uncertainties play. In addition, the book also examines life course dynamics and biographical patterns, assisted reproduction as well as the consequences of childlessness. Childlessness has been increasing rapidly in most European countries in recent decades. This book offers readers expert analysis into this issue from leading experts in the field of family behavior. From causes to consequences, it explores the many facets of childlessness throughout Europe to present a comprehensive portrait of this important demographic and sociological trend.

Author : Natalie Sappleton
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781787543614

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Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness by Natalie Sappleton Pdf

While interest in the drivers, consequences, nature and manifestations of voluntary and involuntary childlessness increases, knowledge progress is hampered by poor linkages across disjointed research fields. The book brings together theoretical insights and empirical investigations into the phenomenon, united within a feminist conceptual framework.

Author : Ben Anderson,Malcolm Brynin,Yoel Raban,Jonathan Gershuny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134175666

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Information and Communications Technologies in Society by Ben Anderson,Malcolm Brynin,Yoel Raban,Jonathan Gershuny Pdf

There is a growing body of work examining the ‘consequences’, or more accurately the inter-relationships between information and communications technologies (ICTs) and society at the microsocial (individual, household) level. The vast majority of this work has so far been focused on the US and the subsequent publications have consequently provided predominantly US-centred analyses. This book will re-dress this balance by providing analyses of the situation in Europe and is associated states and placing the analyses in the context of both European and International research and policy debates. The book uses data from a range of European countries as well as comparisons with Asia and the USA. Students and academics from a range of disciplines including sociology, business and management and new media will find this book to be a valuable addition to their reading lists.

Author : Elena Vegni,Lidia Borghi,Julia Menichetti
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889712335

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Patient-Centered Infertility Care: Current research and Future Perspectives on Psychosocial, Relational, and Communication Aspects by Elena Vegni,Lidia Borghi,Julia Menichetti Pdf

Author : Dr. Digambar Jagannath Darekar
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359174898

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Childlessness: Psychological Study in Indian Scenario by Dr. Digambar Jagannath Darekar Pdf

Author : James H. Monach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134953165

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Childless: No Choice by James H. Monach Pdf

As many as one in five couples in some population groups might be involuntarily childless and, despite the attention attracted by technological advances and media coverage, people often feel themselves to be totally isolated, stigmatised, and misunderstood by many professionals and ordinary people. Childless: No Choice is based on original research into the emotional and social aspects of involuntary childlessness, the main component being a long-term study of the experiences of couples attending an infertility clinic, supported by a community survey and a study of the attitudes of general practitioners. At a time of rapidly developing treatments for infertility and new legislative controls, it is important that all those professionally involved have a full appreciation of the experiences and views of infertile people themselves. While there is enormous attention in the media given to getting pregnant and to childbirth, there is an almost total neglect of the possibility that for some people these `natural' functions may not happen. James H. Monach examines in detail the causes of childlessness and the availability of choices for childless people including artificial insemination, fostering and adoption. This book will be invaluable to doctors, sociologists, social workers, psychologists, health administrators and to anyone who works with childless couples, as well as to childless couples themselves.

Author : Robin E. Jensen
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271078212

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Infertility by Robin E. Jensen Pdf

This book explores the arguments, appeals, and narratives that have defined the meaning of infertility in the modern history of the United States and Europe. Throughout the last century, the inability of women to conceive children has been explained by discrepant views: that women are individually culpable for their own reproductive health problems, or that they require the intervention of medical experts to correct abnormalities. Using doctor-patient correspondence, oral histories, and contemporaneous popular and scientific news coverage, Robin Jensen parses the often thin rhetorical divide between moralization and medicalization, revealing how dominating explanations for infertility have emerged from seemingly competing narratives. Her longitudinal account illustrates the ways in which old arguments and appeals do not disappear in the light of new information, but instead reemerge at subsequent, often seemingly disconnected moments to combine and contend with new assertions. Tracing the transformation of language surrounding infertility from “barrenness” to “(in)fertility,” this rhetorical analysis both explicates how language was and is used to establish the concept of infertility and shows the implications these rhetorical constructions continue to have for individuals and the societies in which they live.

Author : Natalie Sappleton
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781787543621

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Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness by Natalie Sappleton Pdf

While interest in the drivers, consequences, nature and manifestations of voluntary and involuntary childlessness increases, knowledge progress is hampered by poor linkages across disjointed research fields. The book brings together theoretical insights and empirical investigations into the phenomenon, united within a feminist conceptual framework.

Author : Emily C. Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Health
ISBN : PSU:000007602368

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Woman and Health, United States, 1980 by Emily C. Moore Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Public health
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110726077

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Public Health Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dorothy Stein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000936162

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People Who Count by Dorothy Stein Pdf

Originally published in 1995, this book confronts the contentious political issues on all sides of the population debate, including immigration, demographic competition, gender ratios, reproductive research and children’s rights. The book argues that lower fertility rates are preferred by women themselves; are beneficial in their own right to both women and children; and should not be used as a bargaining chip in any other area of the development debate. Drawing on a large body of research in anthropology, child psychology and population studies the book presents evidence that the poor do not necessarily have large families as form of financial security, or to put them to work; people without offspring are less lonely in old age; immigration and refugee controls in the Northern Hemisphere have been more driven by politics than rational calculation and human rights; social security does not require a large cohort of young workers. This book is a challenging contribution to the development debate. It presents a persuasive case for policies which recognise hopeful trends in relieving the environmental and social pressures of a globally increasing population.

Author : Marcia C. Inhorn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136073304

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Local Babies, Global Science by Marcia C. Inhorn Pdf

In the late 1990s, Egypt experienced a boom period in in vitro fertilization (IVF) technology and now boasts more IVF clinics than neighboring Israel. In this book, Marcia Inhorn writes of her fieldwork among affluent, elite couples who sought in vitro fertilization in Egypt, a country which is not only at the forefront of IVF technology in the Middle East, but also a center of Islamic education in the region. Inhorn examines the gender, scientific, religious and cultural ramifications of the transfer of IVF technology from Euro-American points of origin to Egypt - showing how cultural ideas reshape the use of this technology and in turn, how the technology is reshaping cultural ideas in Egypt.

Author : Rachel Chrastil
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190918620

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How to Be Childless by Rachel Chrastil Pdf

In How to Be Childless: A History and Philosophy of Life Without Children, Rachel Chrastil explores the long and fascinating history of childlessness, putting this often-overlooked legacy in conversation with the issues that childless women and men face in the twenty-first century. Eschewing two dominant narratives, that the childless are either barren and alone, or that they are carefree and selfish, How to Be Childless instead argues that the lives of childless individuals from the past can help all of us expand our range of possibilities for the good life. In uncovering the voices and experiences of childless women from the past five hundred years, Chrastil demonstrates that the pathways to childlessness, so often simplified as "choice" and "circumstance," are far more complex and interweaving. Balanced, deeply researched, and richly realized, How to be Childless will empower readers, parents and childless alike, to navigate their lives with purpose.

Author : Ivett Szalma
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658356286

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Attitudes, Norms, and Beliefs Related to Assisted Reproduction Technologies among Childless Women in a Pronatalist Society by Ivett Szalma Pdf

This book examines the general attitudes of childless women to assisted reproduction technologies as well as the norms and beliefs concerning partnership, age and burdens related to assisted reproduction technologies based on four focus group discussions and 32 semi-structured, in-depth interviews. The results show that there is an overall positive attitude to assisted reproduction, but that does not necessarily mean that someone would use assisted reproduction if they needed it and considerable differences in views across age groups can be found.