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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.
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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