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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"childlessness"”.
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Swimming: Writing Childlessness, a Novel and Exegesis
This thesis includes two volumes: The novel, Swimming, in the first volume, is the fictional narrative of one woman's life and her experience of being childless. Kate, the protagonist of the novel, is not me though she has a number of similar experiences. Kate is the subject of her own narrative, a …
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Childlessness in a child-centered environment : the experiences of voluntarily childless female teachers /
In the literature on voluntary childlessness there is a lack of research on the types of occupations held by women who choose not to mother and how their fertility choice influences their occupational experiences. At the same time, the experience ofwomen with regard to the childfree choice has not …
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An exploration of how childlessness and the decision whether to parent is understood by psychoanalytic practitioners.
Voluntary childlessness (VC) is a growing phenomenon in the 21st Century in western societies with the Office of National Statistics (ONS) in 2013 showing that one-fifth of women are childless at the age of 45. Sociological literature highlights how VC is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon and is …
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Hungarian Representations of Motherhood and Childlessness: An Analysis of Post-Communist Developments with a Focus on Nök Lapja Magazine
… by carving out a small space for discussions of childlessness, and also by challenging conceptions of singletons as necessarily lonely and mothers as necessarily better if they stay at home.
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The Meaning of Marriage to the Voluntarily Childless Couple
… literature is replete with findings to show that childlessness is a contemporary and growing trend. However, no known study has been done to explore what marriage means to the couple who chooses childlessness. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore the meaning of marriage to the …
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Infertility in British South Asian communities: negotiating the community and the clinic.
… evidence on the consequences of involuntary childlessness in majority ethnic communities in the UK and other more developed societies, and also a growing literature on the experiences of infertile women in less well-resourced countries, there is a dearth of research exploring the potential …
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honeypot
… the female—experience, such as motherhood, childlessness, oppression, repression, societal expectation, memory, rememory, and mental illness. This full-length collection includes more traditionally structured personal essays and memoir alongside non-linear narrative, vignette, flash, …
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Emplacing, re-imaging and transforming ‘missing’ life-events : a feminine sublime approach to the creation of socially engaged scenography in site-specific walking-performance in rural landscapes
… matter of those performances was biological childlessness-by-circumstance and the ‘missing’ life-event of biological motherhood. The Gathering (2014) revealed the day-to-day and seasonal workings of Hafod y Llan, an upland sheep farm in Snowdonia, Wales. It was evolved through an extended …
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Male inguinal hernia repair with mesh. Short- and long-term results and the question of infertility.
… study, comparing by questionnaire, involuntary childlessness after bilateral inguinal hernia repair with or without mesh. The other was a retrospective study comparing the expected and observed incidences of diagnosed male infertility after inguinal hernia repair with or without mesh. Results: …
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Male Subfertility and Prostate Cancer Risk: Epidemiological and Genetic Studies
… relationship between male subfertility-dependent childlessness and prostate cancer (PCa) risk in a nested case-control study to test the hypothesis that subfertile men are at lower risk of developing PCa than fertile men, since they are frequently hypogonadal secondary to testicular dysfunction. …
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Doorway to the Deep: Memoirs of Enduring Endometriosis and Embracing Life After Loss
… issues that can attend infertility and childlessness.</p>
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The Role of Climate Change Concerns and Perceptions of the Future in Reproductive Decision-Making in a Pronatalist Context
… towards women’s and men’s choice of voluntary childlessness in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) context. Each study in this dissertation approaches a related research question using a different methodological perspective. The first study analyses data from a 2011 international survey to …
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Childless Women in the Plays of William Inge, Tennessee Williams, and Edward Albee
… studied together as works about procreation and childlessness. The study's historical focus is the post World War II era during which time the three plays proposed for analysis were written and produced. Commonly called the baby boom era, the postwar years saw a marked increase in this country's …
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Negotiating meaning following infertility and disruption to life plans
… to fertility treatment ie. adoption and childlessness, and how they each manage their own personal stake in the conversation. Both members of the couple were interviewed together to allow for co-construction. A discourse analysis was conducted from a social-constructionist epistemological …
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Identifying Modifiable Factors Associated with Psychological Health in Women Experiencing Infertility
… trying to conceive, history of miscarriage, and childlessness) did not significantly predict depression or anxiety. Positive affect and experiential avoidance predicted depression and anxiety, self-compassion predicted depression, and intolerance of uncertainty predicted anxiety. There were also …
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Equitable Access to Assisted Reproduction: Designing regulation for efficacious realisation of the right to reproductive health
… in peoples’ lived experiences of involuntary childlessness and its interconnectedness with other human rights safeguards, including that to pursue genetic parenthood. I argue that the right to health raises aspirational and procedural obligations upon states to provide ARTs, as well as an …
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Making Sense of a Loss: Masculinities and Assisted Conception in Contemporary Iran
… clearly illustrates that the stigma around male childlessness is significantly more prominent for men from less privileged socioeconomic backgrounds who cannot live up to the gendered and stratified reproductive norms. Chapter 5 focuses on men’s narratives of their affective experiences of …
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