Reconceiving women : separating motherhood from female identity / Mardy S. Ireland.

New York : Guilford Press, 1993.

xii, 195 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-187) and index.

Childless in the 1990s: The "other" woman and why now? -- The traditional woman: Childless -- The transitional woman: Child-free and childless -- The transformative woman: Child-free -- The development of female identity: facts or fictions? -- Weaving an alternative understanding -- The gendered view of identity: Limitations and possibilities -- Women but not mothers.