{"product_id":"voluntary-and-involuntary-childlessness-the-joys-of-otherhood-9781787543645","title":"Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness: The Joys","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChildlessness is not a new phenomenon, but empirical evidence from the demographic field has demonstrated that it is on the increase. Furthermore, childlessness has a number of consequences for both women and men, the communities in which they live, their psychic states, their social networks and the organisations in which they work.  Bringing together research from a wide range of scholarly disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, sociology, gender studies, social work and social policy, and underpinned by a feminist ontology this edited collection of original chapters provides an insight into the current state of the art research on the drivers, determinants, manifestations and outcomes of childlessness. The collection is intended to be a key resource for scholars, students and policymakers addressing this issue in a wide range of disciplinary contexts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSocial scientists from a number of countries explore key principles of feminist enquiry into theoretical perspectives on voluntary and involuntary childlessness; structure, agency, and childlessness; intersectional perspectives; lived experiences; and national perspectives. Among their topics are from deviant choice to feminist issue: a historical analysis of scholarship on voluntary childlessness 1920-2013, whether loneliness and regret are the inevitable outcomes of ageing and childlessness, age identity and never-married childless older women, finding Mr. Right: childfree women's partner preferences, and stigma and childlessness in historical and contemporary Japan. -- Annotation ©2018 * (protoview.com) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Childlessness Through a Feminist Lens; \u003ci\u003eNatalie Sappleton\u003c\/i\u003ePart 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 From Deviant Choice to Feminist Issue:  A Historical Content Analysis of Scholarship on Voluntary Childlessness (1920 To 2013); \u003ci\u003eIngrid Lynch, Tracy Morison, Catriona Ida Macleod, Magda Mijas, Ryan Du Toit, and Simi Seemanthini\u003c\/i\u003e Chapter 2. What is it Like Being Involuntarily Childless? Searching for Ways of Understanding from a Psychological Perspective; \u003ci\u003eMegumi Fieldsend\u003c\/i\u003e Chapter 3. Wanting to Want: Constructing the Dissident Childless Self; \u003ci\u003eAnna Gotlib\u003c\/i\u003e 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; \u003ci\u003eAlyssa Mullins\u003c\/i\u003e Chapter 5. Social Connectedness, Inclusion and Support: Experiences of Women Without Children in a Pronatalist Society; \u003ci\u003eMelissa Graham, Beth Turnbull, Hayley Mckenzie and Ann Taket\u003c\/i\u003e Chapter 6. \"Join the Club\" Or \"Don't have Kids?\": Exploring Contradictory Experiences, Pressures and Encouragement to have Children in Pronatalist Social Fields; \u003ci\u003eAlyssa Mullins\u003c\/i\u003e Part Three: Intersectional Perspectives On Childlessness  Chapter 7. Are Loneliness and Regret the Inevitable Outcomes of Ageing and Childlessness?; \u003ci\u003eJenny Mercer and Ros O'Driscoll\u003c\/i\u003e Chapter 8. Age-Identity in Progress Narratives of Never-Married Childless Older Women; \u003ci\u003eKate De Medeiros and Robert L. Rubinstein\u003c\/i\u003e Part Four: Lived Experiences of Childlessness   Chapter 9. The Voluntary Childless Marriage; \u003ci\u003eLaura Carroll\u003c\/i\u003e Chapter 10. Finding Mr Right; \u003ci\u003eHelen Peterson\u003c\/i\u003e Chapter 11. Understanding the Employment Experiences of Women with no Children; \u003ci\u003eBeth Turnbull, Melissa Graham and Ann Taket\u003c\/i\u003e Chapter 12. Gender Segregation, Stereotypes, Wellbeing and Childlessness: Evidence of the Links in Europe; \u003ci\u003eNatalie Sappleton\u003c\/i\u003e  Part Five: National Perspectives On Childlessness  Chapter 13. Childlessness in the Hungarian Context; \u003ci\u003eIvett Szalma and Judit Takács\u003c\/i\u003e Chapter 14. Stigma and Childlessness in Historical and Contemporary Japan; \u003ci\u003eKimiko Tanaka and Deborah Lowry\u003c\/i\u003e Chapter 15. The Childless Agenda in Germany\u003ci\u003e; Nazli Kazanoglu \u003c\/i\u003e Postscript: Moving Forward: Towards a Feminist Understanding of 'Otherhood'; \u003ci\u003eNatalie Sappleton\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Emerald Publishing Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49412428267863,"sku":"9781787543645","price":33.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/voluntary-and-involuntary-childlessness-the-joys-of-otherhood-9781787543645","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}