Barren in the Promised Land

Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

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Beskrivning

Chronicling astonishing shifts in public attitudes toward reproduction, from the association of barrenness with sin in colonial times, to the creation of laws for compulsory sterilization in the early twentieth century, from the baby craze of the 1950s, to the rise in voluntary childlessness in the 1990s, to the increasing reliance on startling reproductive technologies today, Elaine Tyler May reveals the intersection between public life and the most private part of our lives—sexuality, procreation, and family.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1997-04-25
Mått:156 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt:458 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Harvard University Press
ISBN:9780674061828

Utforska kategorier

Reproduktionsmedicin inom Medicin
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Elaine Tyler May is Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota.

Recensioner i media

May documents a continuing American obsession with reproduction and shows how this public embrace of childbearing has inflicted anguish on childless women across the centuries.

Innehållsförteckning

The public and private stake in reproduction; barren to infertile - childlessness before the 20th century; the "Race Suicide" panic - eugenics and the pressure to procreate; unfit for parenthood - class, race and compulsory sterilization; the baby craze - the rise of compulsory parenthood; infertility - Freud in the bedroom, sex at the clinic; childfree - the revolt against the baby boom; designers genes - the baby quest and the reproductive fix. Appendix: a note on the sample of letters.