Childfree Across the Disciplines by Davinia Thornley, Davinia... - 9781978823099

Childfree Across the DisciplinesAcademic and Activist Perspectives on not Choosing Children\nAuthor(s): Davinia Thornley, Davinia Thornley, Berenice Fisher, Melanie Brewster, Olivia Snow, Adi Avivi, Amanda Michiko Shigihara, Christopher Clausen, Laura Carroll, Natalia Cherjovsky\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978823099, 978-1978823099\nSynopsis\nRecently, childfree people have been foregrounded in mainstream media. More than seven percentof 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)percep.