Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence
Speaker:
Dr. Amy Blackstone
11 Mar 2020
7:00 PM
Sun Room, Memorial Union
Co-sponsors:
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- College of Human Sciences
- Ames Public Library Friends Foundation
- Women and Gender Studies
- University Library
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
Dr. Amy Blackstone is a professor in sociology at the University of Maine, researching on childfree choice, workplace harassment, and civic engagement. She is the author of Childfree by Choice. Dr. Blackstone will discuss the culture and discrimination that surrounds not having children for women, men, gay and lesbian couples, and trans persons. She will discuss the history of the childfree movement and its future.