Voluntarily Childfree Women And Mothers

Author : Amrita Nandy
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789385932496

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Motherhood and Choice by Amrita Nandy Pdf

How can women live fully? If autonomy is critical for humans, why do women have little or no choice vis-à-vis motherhood? Do women know they have a choice, if they do? How 'free' are these choices in a context where the self is socially mired and deeply enmeshed into the familial? What are implications of motherhood on how human relatedness and belonging are defined? These questions underlie Amrita Nandy's remarkable research on motherhood as an institution, one that conflates 'woman' with 'mother' and 'personal' with 'political'. As the bedrock of human survival and an unchallenged norm of 'normal' female lives, motherhood expects and even compels women to be mothers—symbolic and corporeal. Even though the ideology of pronatalism and motherhood reinforce reproductive technology and vice versa, the care work of mothering suffers political neglect and economic devaluation. However, motherhood (and non-motherhood) is not just physiological. As the pivot to a web of heteronormative institutions (such as marriage and the family), motherhood bears an overwhelming and decisive influence on women's lives. Against the weight of traditional and contemporary histories, socio-political discourse and policies, this study explores how women, as embodiments of multiple identities, could live stigma-free, 'authentic' lives without having to abandon reproductive 'self'-determination. Published by Zubaan.

Author : Dr. Amy Blackstone
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781524744106

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Childfree by Choice by Dr. Amy Blackstone Pdf

From Dr. Amy Blackstone, childfree woman, co-creator of the blog we're {not} having a baby, and nationally recognized expert on the childfree choice, comes a definitive investigation into the history and current growing movement of adults choosing to forgo parenthood: what it means for our society, economy, environment, perceived gender roles, and legacies, and how understanding and supporting all types of families can lead to positive outcomes for parents, non-parents, and children alike. As a childfree woman, Dr. Amy Blackstone is no stranger to a wide range of negative responses when she informs people she doesn't have--nor does she want--kids: confused looks, patronizing quips, thinly veiled pity, even outright scorn and condemnation. But she is not alone in opting out when it comes to children. More people than ever are choosing to forgo parenthood, and openly discussing a choice that's still often perceived as taboo. Yet this choice, and its effects personally and culturally, are still often misunderstood. Amy Blackstone, a professor of sociology, has been studying the childfree choice since 2008, a choice she and her husband had already confidently and happily made. Using her own and others' research as well as her personal experience, Blackstone delves into the childfree movement from its conception to today, exploring gender, race, sexual orientation, politics, environmentalism, and feminism, as she strips away the misconceptions surrounding non-parents and reveals the still radical notion that support of the childfree can lead to better lives and societies for all.

Author : Susan S. Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061748021

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Women Without Children by Susan S. Lang Pdf

Author : M. Waters
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780230301979

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Women on Screen by M. Waters Pdf

A timely intervention into debates on the representation of feminist and feminine identities in contemporary visual culture. The essays in this collection interrogate how and why certain formulations of feminism and femininity are currently prevalent in mainstream cinema and television, offering new insights into postfeminist media phenomena.

Author : Evelyn Nakano Glenn,Grace Chang,Linda Rennie Forcey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134953073

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Mothering by Evelyn Nakano Glenn,Grace Chang,Linda Rennie Forcey Pdf

This volume presents a variety of unique perspectives on mothering as a socially constructed relationship, assessing many of the political, legal and cultural debates surrounding the issue.

Author : Meghan Daum
Publisher : Picador
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781250052940

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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed by Meghan Daum Pdf

SIXTEEN LITERARY LUMINARIES ON THE CONTROVERSIAL SUBJECT OF BEING CHILDLESS BY CHOICE, COLLECTED IN ONE FASCINATING ANTHOLOGY One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed "fertility crisis," and whether modern women could figure out a way to have it all-a successful, demanding career and the required 2.3 children-before their biological clock stopped ticking. Now, however, conversation has turned to whether it's necessary to have it all (see Anne-Marie Slaughter) or, perhaps more controversial, whether children are really a requirement for a fulfilling life. The idea that some women and men prefer not to have children is often met with sharp criticism and incredulity by the public and mainstream media. In this provocative and controversial collection of essays, curated by writer Meghan Daum, sixteen acclaimed writers explain why they have chosen to eschew parenthood. Contributors include Lionel Shriver, Sigrid Nunez, Kate Christiensen, Elliott Holt, Geoff Dyer, and Tim Kreider, among others, who will give a unique perspective on the overwhelming cultural pressure of parenthood. Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed makes a thoughtful and passionate case for why parenthood is not the only path in life, taking our parent-centric, kid-fixated, baby-bump-patrolling culture to task in the process. What emerges is a more nuanced, diverse view of what it means to live a full, satisfying life.

Author : Natalie Sappleton
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Michaela Kreyenfeld,Dirk Konietzka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Helene A. Cummins,Helene A. Cummins Cummins,Julie Anne Rodgers,Judith Dunkelberger Wouk,Julie Anne Rodgers Rodgers
Publisher : Demeter Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772583151

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The Truth About M(O)therhood: Choosing to be Childfree by Helene A. Cummins,Helene A. Cummins Cummins,Julie Anne Rodgers,Judith Dunkelberger Wouk,Julie Anne Rodgers Rodgers Pdf

In a world full of messages about the joys of motherhood, ticking biological clocks, pronatalist ideologies, and socio-cultural imperatives for women to mother, what does the alternative look like? That is, what is the experience of women who choose, or find themselves without progeny, when they are deemed "other," instead of being a "mother"? This anthology of interdisciplinary work links to sociology, anthropology, psychology, demography, religion, language, literature, popular media, medicine and child and family studies. Are women that choose to be childfree always narcissistic, self-obsessed, and lonely? Or can they be free, mobile, and successful? Do all women who choose to be childfree do it in the same way or have the same motivation? What is the role of age, partnership status, trauma, or poverty in this decision? Using techniques such as literature review, ethnographic interviews, autoethnography, and textual analysis and reframing, these sixteen authors from around the globe unpack largely pronatalist, racist, sexist, and heteronormative views and assumptions about childfree women.

Author : Natalie Sappleton
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Janice Oppenheim Levine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Childlessness
ISBN : MSU:31293100712607

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Voluntarily Childfree Women and Mothers by Janice Oppenheim Levine Pdf

Author : Annily Campbell
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0304337471

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Childfree and Sterilized by Annily Campbell Pdf

This book examines the relatively new social and medical phenomenon of women in the developed countries of the world choosing to remain childfree and electing for sterilization rather than continuing with other forms of contraception. Twenty-three voluntarily childfree, sterilized women, aged 22 to 51 years, tell their stories, revealing the struggles they faced in being women without children in a society which expects women to be mothers. They describe the many barriers encountered on the way to being sterilized, including prejudice from those around them as well as hostility and refusal from the medical profession. The women recall how their reasons and decisions were ignored or pathologized by doctors who held unquestioned assumptions about how women should be. Feminist and sociological perspectives are employed to highlight that voluntarily childfree women are perceived as abnormal, not "real" women, and are often the target of negative and critical comment.

Author : Jane Bartlett
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814712443

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Will You Be Mother? by Jane Bartlett Pdf

Women are taught from the earliest moments of life that motherhood, along with marriage to a man, is a natural state to which they should aspire. From dollplay as a child to nagging questions of when am I going to become a grandparent as one gets older, the societal pressure to procreate is constant and intense. What then, of women who choose not to have children or are unable to have children? How do they respond to a society and to families that view them as selfish, incomplete, and less then women? In Will You Be Mother? Jane Bartlett interviews fifty women who, for various reasons, have not had children. We hear from women who have chosen to be sterilized in their twenties, others who can never say never but postpone childbearing because of acute ambivalence, women in their sixties who have chosen to never have children and are happy with that choice, and infertile women who have had no choice. They speak of how their own childhoods shaped their decision and, while expressing their frustration at the pressures placed upon them, also exhibit an unequivocal sense of freedom. Will You Be Mother? is a diverse exploration of the personal and public implications of the pressure society puts on women to have children, and a challenging critique of the prevalent belief that motherhood is a natural state for women.

Author : Jeanne Safer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780671793449

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Beyond Motherhood by Jeanne Safer Pdf

Women from all over the country share their experiences and offer insights into what it is like not having children, and describe what factors helped shape their decision to remain childless.

Author : Ellen L. Walker
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781608320738

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Complete Without Kids by Ellen L. Walker Pdf

Examines the rewards and challenges childfree adults face living in a world that celebrates traditional families, offering advice on how to cope with the pressure of friends and family to have children, taking advantage of leisure time, and financial considerations.