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Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
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Introduction: Childfree across the Disciplines / Davinia Thornley
Part I. Childfree Subjectivities
1. Affirming Social Value: Women without Children / Berenice M. Fisher
2. Childfree Minority Stress: Considerations for Life at the Margins of Adulthood / Melanie Elyse Brewster and Olivia Snow
3. "You Will Change Your Mind": The Controlling Function of Microaggressions on the Minds of Parents and Non-parents / Adi Avivi
4. Selfish Is Not a Four-Letter Word: Self-Care and Other-Care among Childfree Women / Amanda Michiko Shigihara
Part II. Childfree Representation
5. Childfree in Toyland / Christopher Clausen
6. The Annual Global Childfree Event: International Childfree Day / Laura Carroll
7. Reproductive Villains: The Representation of Childfree Women in Mainstream Cinema and Television / Natalia Cherjovsky
Part III. Childfree Economic and Environmental Perspectives
8. Excerpts from An Atypical Chick: A Gay Man in a Woman's Body / Rhonny Dam
9. The Breadwinner Dilemma: The Real and Opportunity Costs of Children / Laura S. Scott
10. Voluntary Childlessness: An Upstream Choice in the Anthropocene / Erika M. Arias
Part IV. Childfree Redefinitions
11. Recognizing Our Womanhood, Redefining Femininity / Laurie Lisle
12. Refusing to Be Othered: Redefining the "Silent Bodies" of Childfree Women / Anna Gotlib
Concluding Thoughts / Davinia Thornley
Notes on Contributors
Index.
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction: Childfree across the Disciplines / Davinia Thornley
Part I. Childfree Subjectivities
1. Affirming Social Value: Women without Children / Berenice M. Fisher
2. Childfree Minority Stress: Considerations for Life at the Margins of Adulthood / Melanie Elyse Brewster and Olivia Snow
3. "You Will Change Your Mind": The Controlling Function of Microaggressions on the Minds of Parents and Non-parents / Adi Avivi
4. Selfish Is Not a Four-Letter Word: Self-Care and Other-Care among Childfree Women / Amanda Michiko Shigihara
Part II. Childfree Representation
5. Childfree in Toyland / Christopher Clausen
6. The Annual Global Childfree Event: International Childfree Day / Laura Carroll
7. Reproductive Villains: The Representation of Childfree Women in Mainstream Cinema and Television / Natalia Cherjovsky
Part III. Childfree Economic and Environmental Perspectives
8. Excerpts from An Atypical Chick: A Gay Man in a Woman's Body / Rhonny Dam
9. The Breadwinner Dilemma: The Real and Opportunity Costs of Children / Laura S. Scott
10. Voluntary Childlessness: An Upstream Choice in the Anthropocene / Erika M. Arias
Part IV. Childfree Redefinitions
11. Recognizing Our Womanhood, Redefining Femininity / Laurie Lisle
12. Refusing to Be Othered: Redefining the "Silent Bodies" of Childfree Women / Anna Gotlib
Concluding Thoughts / Davinia Thornley
Notes on Contributors
Index.