{"product_id":"9781978823082-childfree-across-the-disciplines","title":"Childfree across the Disciplines","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAcademic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children. \u003ci\u003eChildfree across the Disciplines: Academic and Activist Perspectives on \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNot Choosing Children\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the relationship between childfreedom, social ideologies, and community activism. The authors ask (and frequently answer) the question: how do childfree people negotiate their subjectivity in a changing demographic, economic, media-saturated cultural landscape?\u003cbr\u003e  . \u003cp\u003eRecently, 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This collection engages with these (mis)perceptions about childfree people: in media representations, demographics, historical documents, and both psychological and philosophical models.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.\u003ci\u003e Childfree across the Disciplines \u003c\/i\u003eunequivocally 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40947955859553,"sku":"9781978823082","price":27.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/6cdbfd6f6cec8b811b6c5187e8f974bc.png?v=1692824670","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781978823082-childfree-across-the-disciplines","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}