Childfree Across the Disciplines: Academic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children by Thornley, Davinia
Childfree Across the Disciplines: Academic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children by Thornley, Davinia

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

Recently, childfree people have been foregrounded in mainstream media. More than seven percent of Western women choose...
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Author: Davinia Thornley
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Childfree Across the Disciplines: Academic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children by Thornley, Davinia

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

$118.73
Childfree Across the Disciplines: Academic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children by Thornley, Davinia

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

$118.73
Author: Davinia Thornley
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Recently, childfree people have been foregrounded in mainstream media. More than seven percent of Western women choose to remain childfree and this figure is increasing. Being childfree challenges the 'procreation imperative' residing at the center of our hetero-normative understandings, occupying an uneasy position in relation to--simultaneously--traditional academic ideologies and prevalent social norms. After all, as Adi Avivi recognizes, "if a woman is not a mother, the patriarchal social order is in danger." This collection engages with these (mis)perceptions about childfree people: in media representations, demographics, historical documents, and both psychological and philosophical models. Foundational pieces from established experts on the childfree choice--Rhonny Dam, Laurie Lisle, Christopher Clausen, and Berenice Fisher--appear alongside both activist manifestos and original scholarly work, comprehensively brought together. Academics and activists in various disciplines and movements also riff on the childfree life: its implications, its challenges, its conversations, and its agency--all in relation to its inevitability in the 21st century. Childfree across the Disciplines unequivocally takes a stance supporting the subversive potential of the childfree choice, allowing readers to understand childfreedom as a sense of continuing potential in who--or what--a person can become.



Author: Davinia Thornley
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 04/15/2022
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781978823082

About the Author
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 Cinema, Cross-Cultural Collaboration, and Criticism: Filming on an Uneven Field.

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