Childlessness in the Age of Communication Deconstructing Silence

• 第一著者: Archetti, Cristina (auth)
• フォーマット: 電子媒体 図書の章
• 言語: 英語
• 出版事項: Taylor & Francis 2020
• 主題: Illness & addiction: social aspects; Media studies; Sociology: birth; evocative writing;involuntary childlessness;political communication
• オンライン･アクセス: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

要約

Cristina Archetti started researching childlessness after being diagnosed with ""unexplained infertility"". She soon discovered that, although involuntary childlessness affects an increasing number of women and men across the world, this topic is shrouded taboo and shame. This book is both a first-person reflection about the existential questions posed by involuntary childlessness and a readable account of the way the silence surrounding this topic is socially and politically constructed. Revealing the invisible mechanisms that, from the microscopic details of everyday life to policy, make up the structure of silence around childlessness, Archetti demonstrates what it means not to have children in a society that is organized around families. Through a prose that mixes analysis, excerpts of interviews, media fragments, and evocative writing, she develops a new language of feeling-in-the-body fit for the twenty-first century and exposes the devastating effects infertility has on relationships, identity, health and well-being, in societies that fetishize parenthood. Childlessness in the Age of Communication draws upon a range of disciplines and fields including sociology, health, gender and sexuality studies, communication, politics and anthropology. It is a book for all those interested in childlessness and innovative qualitative research methodologies.

物理的記述

1 electronic resource (284 p.)

ISBN

9780367810399
9780367409944
9781032478067

アクセス

Open Access