Childfree Across the Disciplines: Academic and Activist Perspectives on not Choosing Children, Adi Avivi, Amanda Michiko Shigihara, Anna Gotlib, Berenice Fisher, Christopher Clausen, Davinia Thornley, Erika M. Arias, Laura Carroll, Laura S. Scot
Описание: 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 This collection engages with these (mis)perceptions about childfree people: in media representations, demographics, historical documents, and both psychological and philosophical models.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.
Representations of gender in learning materials convey an implicit message to students about attitudes towards culturally appropriate gender roles for women and men. This collection takes a linguistic approach to exploring theories about gender representation within the sphere of education and textbooks, and their effects on readers and students within an international context.
In the opening section, contributors discuss theories of representation and effect, challenging the conventional Althusserian model of interpellation, and acknowledging the challenges of applying Western feminist models within an international context. Following chapters provide detailed analyses focusing on a number of different countries: Australia, Japan, Brazil, Finland, Russia, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Germany, Qatar, Tanzania, and Poland. Through linguistic analysis of vocabulary associated with women and men, content analysis of what women and men say in textbooks, and discourse analysis of the types of linguistic moves associated with women and men, contributors evaluate the extent to which gendered representations in textbooks perpetuate stereotypical gender roles, what the impact may be on learners, and the ways that both teachers and learners interact and engage with these texts.
Автор: Karpagam Mandy Gopal Название: No Kidding: The Childfree Choice Defended ISBN: 1948032171 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781948032179 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2274.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Surely, it takes a special courage for one to dare to be "different." The childfree are considered as a square peg in a round hole, in a child-centric world. Any form of "deviance" is socially constructed; there is no such thing as a taboo in all of natural history- it is people and civilization that label it as a form of "deviance" or social "taboo."
Consequently, the "deviant" label becomes attached to an individual or a collective group whose beliefs, values and mores appear "different" from what the "mainstream" society practices.
Given the "herd" mentality of the majority of the masses, this "deviant" label becomes "sticky" and pretty much indelible.
However, we have to remember the natural laws of evolution: only the fittest survive in this harsh and cruel world.
No evolutionary scientist ever asserted that only the kind and benevolent survive in the cold world of evolutionary development and progress. That is not to advocate a callous or malevolent intent or worldview in general.
Put simply, self-preservation is key. Altruism is of secondary importance when it comes to one's survival instincts
Автор: Patricia W. Lunneborg Название: The Chosen Lives of Childfree Men ISBN: 0897895983 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780897895989 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 8613.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Although each man provides several reasons, the author identifies nine main types of childfree men, including workaholics, lifelong learners, early retirees, stress reducers, and men who don`t want to repeat the mistakes of their parents.
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