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No Kids:40 Good Reasons Not To Have Children
[Paperback - 2009]
corinne maier
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Category: Self Help
Sub-category: Family & Parenting
Additional Category: Women Studies
Publisher: Mcclelland & Stewart | ISBN: 9780771054778 | Pages: 136
Shipping Weight: .142 | Dimensions: 5.07 x .28 x 8.02 inches

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The shocking treatise that was a bestselling international media sensation upon its 2007 publication in France now makes its eagerly anticipated English-language debut.

A mother of two herself, Maier makes her deadly serious, if at times laugh-out-loud-funny, argument with all the unbridled force of her famously wicked intellect. In forty to-the-point, impressively erudite chapters drawing on the realms of history, child psychology, politics, and the environment, Maier effortlessly skewers the idealized notion of parenthood as a natural and beautiful endeavour. Enough with this “baby-mania” that is plaguing modern society, says Maier, it’s nothing but brainwashing. Are you prepared to give up your free time, dinners with friends, spontaneous romantic getaways, and even the luxury of uninterrupted thought for the “vicious little dwarves” that will treat you like their servant, cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars, and end up resenting you?

Speaking to the still “child-free”, to fellow suffering parents, and to adamant procreationists alike, No Kids is a controversial, thought-provoking, and undeniably entertaining read.

Reasons to avoid having kids:

•You will lose touch with your friends
•Your sex life will be over
•Children cost a fortune
• Child-rearing is endless drudgery
•Vacations will be nightmares
•You’ll lose your identity and become just “mom” or “dad”
•Your children will become mindless drones of capitalism
•The planet’s already overcrowded
•Your children will inevitably disappoint you

About the Author

Corinne Maier est psychanalyste à Bruxelles et à Paris et essayiste.Ses essais s'attaquent au travail, à la famille et à la patrie. Plusieurs de ses publications se jouent de la langue de bois contemporaine qui uniformise les discours. Psychanalyste, économiste, sociologue et historienne, elle est l'auteur de livres fortement inspirés par Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes et Michel Foucault. Elle est surnommée «l'héroïne de la contre-culture » par le New York Times1 depuis le succès mondial de l'un de ses ouvrages, Bonjour Paresse (trente traductions). Un autre de ses livres, No Kid, qui prend la forme d'un manifeste anti-nataliste, a été traduit en douze langues. Ses ouvrages font l'objet de nombreuses traductions.

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