Voluntary and involuntary childlessness : the joys of otherhood? /: the joys of otherhood?. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Natalie Sappleton.
• Editors: Sappleton, Natalie
• Contents: Introduction: Childlessness Through a Feminist Lens; Natalie SappletonPart One: Theoretical Perspectives On Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness Chapter 1. From Deviant Choice to Feminist Issue: A Historical Content Analysis of Scholarship on Voluntary Childlessness (1920 To 2013); Ingrid Lynch, Tracy Morison, Catriona Ida Macleod, Magda Mijas, Ryan Du Toit, and Simi Seemanthini Chapter 2. What is it Like Being Involuntarily Childless? Searching for Ways of Understanding from a Psychological Perspective; Megumi Fieldsend Chapter 3. Wanting to Want: Constructing the Dissident Childless Self; Anna Gotlib Part Two: Structural and Agential Underpinnings of Childlessness Chapter 4. Capital in Pronatalist Fields: Exploring The Influence of Economic, Social, Cultural and Symbolic Capital on Childbearing Habitus; Alyssa Mullins Chapter 5. Social Connectedness, Inclusion and Support: Experiences of Women Without Children in a Pronatalist Society; Melissa Graham, Beth Turnbull, Hayley Mckenzie and Ann Taket Chapter 6. "Join the Club" Or "Don't have Kids?": Exploring Contradictory Experiences, Pressures and Encouragement to have Children in Pronatalist Social Fields; Alyssa Mullins Part Three: Intersectional Perspectives On Childlessness Chapter 7. Are Loneliness and Regret the Inevitable Outcomes of Ageing and Childlessness?; Jenny Mercer and Ros O'Driscoll Chapter 8. Age-Identity in Progress Narratives of Never-Married Childless Older Women; Kate De Medeiros and Robert L. Rubinstein Part Four: Lived Experiences of Childlessness Chapter 9. The Voluntary Childless Marriage; Laura Carroll Chapter 10. Finding Mr Right; Helen Peterson Chapter 11. Understanding the Employment Experiences of Women with no Children; Beth Turnbull, Melissa Graham and Ann Taket Chapter 12. Gender Segregation, Stereotypes, Wellbeing and Childlessness: Evidence of the Links in Europe; Natalie Sappleton Part Five: National Perspectives On Childlessness Chapter 13. Childlessness in the Hungarian Context; Ivett Szalma and Judit Takács Chapter 14. Stigma and Childlessness in Historical and Contemporary Japan; Kimiko Tanaka and Deborah Lowry Chapter 15. The Childless Agenda in Germany; Nazli Kazanoglu Postscript: Moving Forward: Towards a Feminist Understanding of 'Otherhood'; Natalie Sappleton.
• Publisher Details: United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.87; Childlessness
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787543638; 9781787543614
• Related ISBNs: 9781787543621
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