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Without Children
A historian explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood in this “timely, refreshingly open-hearted study of the choices women make and the cards they’re dealt” (Ada Calhoun, author of Why We Can’t Sleep). In an era of falling births, it’s often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids. But history is full of women without children: some who chose childless lives, others who wanted children but never had them, and still others—the vast majority, then and now—who fell somewhere in between. Modern women considering how and if children fit into their lives are products of their political, ecological, and cultural moment. But history also...
Begetting
An investigation of what it means to have children—morally, philosophically and emotionally “Do you want to have children?” is a question we routinely ask each other. But what does it mean to create a child? Is this decision always justified? Does anyone really have the moral right to create another person? In Begetting, Mara van der Lugt attempts to fill in the moral background of procreation. Drawing on both philosophy and popular culture, van der Lugt does not provide a definitive answer on the morality of having a child; instead, she helps us find the right questions to ask. Most of the time, when we talk about whether to have children, what we are really talking about is whether w...
The Solidarity Economy
The untold story of the role of humanitarian NGOs in building the neoliberal order after empire After India gained independence in 1947, Britain reinvented its role in the global economy through nongovernmental aid organizations. Utilizing existing imperial networks and colonial bureaucracy, the nonprofit sector sought an ethical capitalism, one that would equalize relationships between British consumers and Third World producers as the age of empire was ending. The Solidarity Economy examines the role of nonstate actors in the major transformations of the world economy in the postwar era, showing how British NGOs charted a path to neoliberalism in their pursuit of ethical markets. Between t...
엄마 아닌 여자들
엄마 아닌 여자들에 붙어 있는 ‘비정상’이란 꼬리표를 떼다 왜 여성들은 ‘엄마가 되지 않기로’ 선택했을까 그 고독한 연대에 대한 문제적 질문들 우리는 자녀 가진 여성을 어머니라고 부른다. 반면 자녀 없는 여성을 비하하지 않고 일컫는 말은 ‘자녀 없는 여성’뿐이다. 그 사람이 가지지 못한 존재나 그 사람이 되지 못한 존재(즉, 어머니)를 들어서 부르는 방법밖에 없다. 이 책의 저자이자 시카고 대학교에서 역사학을 가르치고 있는 페기 오도널 헤핑턴은 “과거에도 늘 존재했으며 점차 익숙해지고 있는 자녀 없이 사...
Harpy
Each generation has more childfree women than the one before. For many, it is an active decision made for a wide range of reasons. Despite this growing trend, we continue to live in a society where women are often judged for deciding to remain childfree - for not conforming to narrow expectations. For being a Harpy. In this timely and thoughtful book, Caroline Magennis looks beyond the often-divisive conversation around women who choose to be childfree and offers an alternative message of hope and celebration. With humour and intelligence, she explores why motherhood isn't right for everybody and how any woman - whether a parent or childfree - can live a full life, while also reminding the reader that your freedoms and the right to autonomy should never be taken for granted.
What Are Children For?
Having children is one of the biggest decisions you’ll make in your life. Increasingly, we aren’t making it at all. 'A book for lovers of sound reasoning.' THE NEW YORKER Across the developed world, fewer and fewer people are becoming parents. We seek self-fulfilment; we want women to find meaning and self-worth outside the household; we wish to protect the planet from the ravages of climate change; we do what we can to protect others from senseless suffering. On the face of it, none of these goals are served by having children. Amid such pressures, how on earth can we make the choice to do so? Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman offer a way out of this inertia and indecision by reminding us that in making the individual decision whether to have children, we confront a profound philosophical question: for all its pains and failures, is human life worth living? What Are Children For? is a stirring call to overcome fear and dread and embrace the value of human existence and a human future.
The Childfree Guide to Life and Money
An essential and comprehensive personal finance and money management guide for Childfree and Permanently Childless people. Design the life you want, then create the right financial plan to get you there. Financial planning looks vastly different for DINKs (dual-income, no kids) and SINKs (single-income, no kids). But nearly all the advice out there assumes you have children or will have them someday. Everything from pursuing the kind of career you want; deciding whether you want to buy a house, rent, or hit the road as a digital nomad; to planning and filing taxes; budgeting and investing your money; and getting set up for retirement or your later years is different. Simply said: When you ar...
沒有小孩的她們
生，還是不生？ 生了孩子的女人，與沒生孩子的女人， 真的是光譜的兩極嗎？ 其實，影響女人生育抉擇的因素有很多， 從生涯規劃，到害怕能否照顧孩子；從無法生育，到擔心環境危機…… 古往今來，許多女性，都曾在盡力過好這一生的掙扎中，苦苦思索：生活中是否有容納小孩的空間？無論她們做出什麼的選擇，都不免受到所處背景的影響──時代、社會、文化，是適合生孩子，或是不適合？她們是自己所屬歷史時代的產品，也是地球賦予她們短短時間禮物的產品。 本書超越社會為母職、非母職劃下的界線， 看到各個...
Living the Life Unexpected
Jody Day would have liked to have had children, but it didn't work out that way. At the age of 44, she admitted to herself that her quest to be a mother was at an end. She presumed that she was through the toughest part, but over the next couple of years she was hit by waves of grief, despair and isolation. Eventually she found her way and created the Gateway Women Network, helping many thousands of women worldwide. In 'Living the Life Unexpected', Jody addresses the taboo of childlessness and shows women how to live creative, happy, meaningful and fulfilling lives without children.
Lady Hester
Told with all the verve of its subject's life, based on much new source material and extensive travel in Hester's footsteps, 'Lady Hester' traces this extraordinary life from Downing Street to an isolated monastery in the hills of Lebanon - a stunning evocation of a unique and pioneering figure.
