{"product_id":"the-truth-about-m-otherhood-choosing-to-be-childfree","title":"The Truth about (M)Otherhood: Choosing to Be Childfree","description":"In a world full of messages about the joys of motherhood, ticking biological clocks, pronatalist ideologies, and socio-cultural imperatives for women to mother, what does the alternative look like? That is, what is the experience of women who choose, or find themselves without progeny, when they are deemed \"other,\" instead of being a \"mother\"? This anthology of interdisciplinary work links to sociology, anthropology, psychology, demography, religion, language, literature, popular media, medicine and child and family studies. Are women that choose to be childfree always narcissistic, self-obsessed, and lonely? Or can they be free, mobile, and successful? Do all women who choose to be childfree do it in the same way or have the same motivation? What is the role of age, partnership status, trauma, or poverty in this decision? Using techniques such as literature review, ethnographic interviews, autoethnography, and textual analysis and reframing, these sixteen authors from around the globe unpack largely pronatalist, racist, sexist, and heteronormative views and assumptions about childfree women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-13444607\"\u003eHelene A. Cummins\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Demeter Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/25\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781772582840\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1772582840\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC028000\"\u003eWomen's Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC010000\"\u003eFeminism \u0026amp; Feminist Theory\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHelene A. Cummins\u003c\/b\u003e is a Full Professor of Sociology at Brescia University College (BUC), Western University in London, ON. She received the first Award of Excellence in teaching at BUC and was nominated on two occasions for distinguished teaching at Western University. She is a former elected Chair of the Department of Sociology, and former Associate Academic Dean at her university. She has published in \u003ci\u003eThe Canadian review of Sociology and Anthropology, Women's Studies International Forum, Advancing Women in Leadership, Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, The Canadian Geographer\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eJournal of Rural and Community Development\u003c\/i\u003e, to name a few. She was elected Chair of The Status of Women Committee for OCUFA. In 2016 she won The Status of Women Award of Distinction, which represents twenty-eight university in Ontario, Canada. Her areas of expertise include gender and equity, sociology of the family, rural sociology, and ethics. \u003cb\u003eJudith Dunkelberger Wouk\u003c\/b\u003e has degrees in anthropology and law. After a career as a Canadian federal public servant, she is now involved in political and spiritual activism. She has researched and taught reframing Less Known Women of the Bible including Miriam the Drummer, Jezebel, Teraphim, Balaam's donkey, and Judith, as well as on \"Paganism in Ottawa in the '90s,\" \"Fitting your Life into Judaism \u0026amp;\/or fitting Judaism into your life\" (with Jonathan Wouk), \"In Search of the Feminine Divine\" (with Angelina Cacciato), \"Women and Judaism\" in \"Varieties of Contemporary Judaism,\" Totonicapan: A Community in Guatemala (1969), and Religion in Monserrat Ecuador (1968). Her publications include \"Recalling Our Herstory: Miriam the Prophetess (\u003ci\u003eCanadian Women Studies \u003c\/i\u003e2015), \"Unaccompanied\/Separated Minors and Refugee Protection in Canada: Filling Information Gaps\" (\u003ci\u003eRefuge: Canada's Periodical on Refugees \u003c\/i\u003e2006); \"Equal Pay\" (\u003ci\u003eAnsul \u003c\/i\u003e1978); \"Birth Control and Minors: The Legal Position\" (\u003ci\u003eAnsul \u003c\/i\u003e1978). \u003cb\u003eJulie Anne Rodgers\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in French at Maynooth University. Her research (mainly in the field of French Studies) focuses on the production and reception of maternal counternarratives and incorporates the study of a wide range of mothering experiences that do not correspond to the normative, patriarchal script of motherhood. These include maternal ambivalence, postnatal and ongoing maternal depression, difficult pregnancies, and, of course, the choice to remain childfree. Julie has published widely on motherhood and mothering. Selected articles are as follows: mother-daughter relations in Francine Noel (\u003ci\u003eFrancofonia\u003c\/i\u003e, 2009); the difficulty of exercising selfhood alongside motherhood in Ying Chen (\u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Canadian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, 2012); and voluntary childlessness in Lucie Joubert (\u003ci\u003eWomen: A Cultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e, 2018). Julie has also published a chapter with Demeter Press on Lisa Baraitser and the ethics of maternal interruption in\u003ci\u003e Mothering and Psychoanalysis \u003c\/i\u003e(2014) edited by Petra Bueskens. In addition to her scholarship on motherhood and mothering, Julie is also mother to Harry, aged 4.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Demeter Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42657996931309,"sku":"9781772582840","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_3b44c6e7-0c5e-468f-8fa1-447c4ea12c6b.jpg?v=1649318727","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-truth-about-m-otherhood-choosing-to-be-childfree","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}