Beyond motherhood : choosing a life without children / Jeanne Safer.

  • Safer, Jeanne
Date:
[1996]
  • Books

About this work

Description

Women from all over the country share their experiences and offer insights into what it is like not having children, and describe what factors helped shape their decision to remain childless.

Publication/Creation

New York : Pocket Books, [1996]

Physical description

190 pages ; 21 cm

Contributors

Notes

"First Pocket Books trade paperback printing February 1996"--Title page verso.

Contents

My story -- Choosing a childless life: other women's voices -- Timetables: when women decide against motherhood -- Moments of truth -- The Wrong stuff: personality factors -- My history created my solution: childless women's childhoods -- Living a childless life -- Two's not the loneliest number: portraits of childless marriage -- No gene for motherhood: forging an alternative feminine identity -- What we leave behind: aging and nonbiological legacies -- Epilogue: If you're considering childlessness.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    UV.U
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ISBN

  • 0671793446
  • 9780671793449