Published 2014
Volume 6, issue 1 of the journal Studies in the Maternal is a special edition on ‘Non-Reproduction: Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics‘. It was co-edited by Perceptions of Pregnancy network member Fran Bigman, and includes an article by Lucy van de Wiel who also spoke at our conference. The contents range from a piece on Reproductive Ageing and Egg Freezing in Dutch and British News Media to one on Voluntary childlessness in Weimar and contemporary Germany.
Contents
Position Pieces
Nina Power Brief Notes towards a Non-Nihilistic Theory of Non-Reproduction
Lisa Baraitser Time and Again: Repetition, Maternity and the Non-Reproductive
Papers
Lucy van de Wiel For Whom the Clock Ticks: Reproductive Ageing and Egg Freezing in Dutch and British News Media
Sam McBean The Gamble of Reproduction: Conceiving Ada’s Queer Temporalities
Nick Hocking Letting the Skyfall or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love James Bond
Christina Benninghaus ‘No, thank you, Mr. Stork!’: Voluntary childlessness in Weimar and contemporary Germany
Gilla Shapiro Voluntary childlessness: A critical review of the literature — Review Essay
Book Reviews
Eve Lacey Alison Kafer, Feminist Queer Crip
Hannah Proctor Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, Sex, or the Unbearable
Berneil Rupp Mueller Rachel Epp Buller, Have Milk, Will Travel
Marianna Leite Paul Hunt and Tony Gray, Maternal Mortality, Human Rights and Accountability
Multimedia Work
Kabe Wilson The Dreadlock Hoax
Perceptions of Pregnancy 