Childlessness in the Age of Communication

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-p...

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主要作者: Archetti, Cristina
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description 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.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1224152025-03-24T12:59:12Z Childlessness in the Age of Communication Archetti, Cristina evocative writing;involuntary childlessness;political communication 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. 2023-11-17T10:21:46Z 2023-11-17T10:21:46Z 2023-08-30T12:21:33Z 2020 book OCN: 1147888591 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75917 9780367810399 9780367409944 9781032478067 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/122415 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75917/1/9781000033342.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75917/1/9781000033342.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75917/1/9781000033342.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780367810399 10.4324/9780367810399 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 University of Oslo c273ec27-d2be-4f1d-8917-141b286f1657 9780367810399 9780367409944 9781032478067 Routledge 284 open access
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