没有孩子:不做母亲的漫长历史 Without Children：The Long History of Not Being a Mother

基本信息

Format:Hardback 256 pages, 1 BW image on text

Publisher:Basic Books

Imprint:Basic Books

ISBN:9781541675575

Published:11 May 2023

Dimensions:159 x 244 x 30 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

在出生率下降的时代，人们常说千禧一代发明了不生孩子的想法。 但历史上不乏没有孩子的女性：有些人选择了不生孩子的生活，另一些人想要孩子但从未生过孩子，还有一些人——无论是当时还是现在，绝大多数人——都处于两者之间。 现代女性考虑孩子如何以及是否融入她们的生活是她们政治、生态和文化时刻的产物。 但历史也告诉他们，他们并不孤单。

历史学家佩吉·奥唐纳·赫芬顿 (Peggy O'Donnell Heffington) 凭借深入的研究和她自己作为一名没有孩子的女性的经历，表明当今女性不生育的许多原因与过去的女性一样：缺乏支持、缺乏工作或缺乏支持。 财务、环境问题、不孕不育以及对不同生活的渴望。 她写道，了解这段历史——没有孩子一直是多么正常，以及社会如何努力让它看起来不正常——是重建母亲和非母亲之间的亲缘关系以及为孩子们建设一个更美好世界的关键。 我们所有人。

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 tells them that they are not alone. 

Drawing on deep research and her own experience as a woman without children, historian Peggy O’Donnell Heffington shows that many of the reasons women are not having children today are ones they share with women in the past: a lack of support, their jobs or finances, environmental concerns, infertility, and the desire to live different kinds of lives. Understanding this history—how normal it has always been to not have children, and how hard society has worked to make it seem abnormal—is key, she writes, to rebuilding kinship between mothers and non-mothers, and to building a better world for us all. 

作者简介

佩吉·奥唐纳·赫芬顿 (Peggy O’Donnell Heffington) 是芝加哥大学历史学教学教授，教授从女权主义到人权等学科。 她的文章可以在《耶洗别》、《洛杉矶书评》、《波士顿环球报》和其他地方找到。 她在加州大学伯克利分校获得历史学博士学位。

Peggy O’Donnell Heffington is an instructional professor of history at the University of Chicago and teaches subjects ranging from feminism to human rights. Her writing can be found in Jezebel,the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Boston Globe, and elsewhere. She received her PhD in history from the University of California, Berkeley.