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Without Child by Laurie Lisle5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() 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. 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. 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 This collection engages with these (mis)perceptions about childfree people: in media representations, demographics, historical documents, and both psychological and philosophical models. 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. ![]() More than seven percent of Western women choose to remain childfree and this figure is increasing. Recently, childfree people have been foregrounded in mainstream media. ![]()
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