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

Davinia Thornley,Berenice Fisher,Melanie Brewster,Olivia Snow

Childfree across the Disciplines: Academic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Country
United States
Published
15 April 2022
Pages
236
ISBN
9781978823099

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

Davinia Thornley,Berenice Fisher,Melanie Brewster,Olivia Snow

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 This collection engages with these (mis)perceptions about childfree people: in media representations, demographics, historical documents, and both psychological and philosophical models.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, Laura 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.

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