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. The
Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative
Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0
license.
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ISBN
9781000033427
Publisert
2020
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Routledge
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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