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No to children, yes to childfreedom:
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No to children, yes to childfreedom:
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pronatalism and the perspectives and experiences of childfree women
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10005600001.ETD.17623
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Liberal Studies
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Childlessness
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Motherhood--Decision making
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Pronatalism
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While women are pressured by our culture into believing that motherhood is essential for a woman to live a happy and fulfilling life, in reality most childfree women live happy and fulfilling lives while being free of the many burdens and sacrifices involved in childrearing. In addition, they enjoy many benefits and experiences that women who have children often must forego in order to take on the tremendous responsibilities of motherhood. Despite these benefits and opportunities, our culture treats the childfree lifestyle as one solely of lack and one that is not a viable or acceptable lifestyle option for women. The childfree lifestyle is either ignored or outright condemned by our culture and women who choose the childfree lifestyle are usually perceived as misguided, confused and selfish. My project will expose our culture as rampantly and unnecessarily pronatalist and will argue that such rigid lifestyle requirements for women have no place in a society built on the ideal of self-determinism.
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M.A.
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Includes bibiographical references (p. 51-54).
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Patricia A.
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Stuart
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Stuart Z Charme
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Rutgers University
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Camden Graduate School
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2008
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2008-05
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Camden Graduate School Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T30Z73MQ
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ETD graduate
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Patricia Vesper
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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