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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780814712450 |
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Publisher Comments:
In Will You Be Mother? Jane Bartlett interviews fifty women who, for various reasons, have not had children. We hear from women who have chosen to be sterilized in their twenties, others who can never say never but postpone childbearing because of acute ambivalence, women in their sixties who have chosen to never have children and are happy with that choice, and infertile women who have had no choice. They speak of how their own childhoods shaped their decision and, while expressing their frustration at the pressures placed upon them, also exhibit an unequivocal sense of freedom. Will You Be Mother? is a diverse exploration of the personal and public implications of the pressure society puts on women to have children, and a challenging critique of the prevalent belief that motherhood is a natural state for women.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780814712450
- Subtitle:
- Women Who Choose to Say No
- Author:
- Publisher:
- New York University Press
- Location:
- New York :
- Subject:
- Women
- Subject:
- Women's Studies
- Subject:
- Motherhood
- Subject:
- Sexuality
- Subject:
- Public opinion
- Subject:
- Choice (psychology)
- Subject:
- Childlessness
- Subject:
- Choice.
- Subject:
- Childlessness -- Great Britain -- Case studies.
- Subject:
- Women's Studies - General
- Subject:
- Parenting - Motherhood
- Subject:
- Infertility
- Subject:
- WOMEN_GREAT BRITAIN
- Subject:
- WOMEN_ATTITUDES
- Subject:
- Gender identity
- Subject:
- Gender Studies
- Edition Description:
- Trade paper
- Series Volume:
- 1130.
- Publication Date:
- March 1995
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- College/higher education:
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 192
- Dimensions:
- 8.20x5.41x.62 in. .61 lbs.











