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Childlessness.
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Families.
Choice (Psychology)
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No kidding : women writers on bypassing parenthood / foreword by Jennifer Coolidge ; edited by Henriette Mantel.
Seal Press, c2013.
Call #:
306
.87
N739m
Subjects
Childlessness.
Parenthood.
Families.
Choice (Psychology)
ISBN:
9781580054430 (pbk.)
1580054439 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
Women writers on bypassing parenthood
Description:
xiv, 233 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents:
The morning dance / Henriette Mantel -- I wouldn't know where to begin / Margaret Cho -- What to expect when you're never expecting / Bonnie Datt -- All of it / Noran Dunn -- The greatest thing I never did / Julie Halston -- On not choosing children / Janette Barber -- In-fertile ground / Sue Kolinsky -- No free babysitter / Jane Gennaro -- First comes love / Laurie Graff -- Aha, ha ha / Carol Siskind -- Without issue / Bernadette Luckett -- Call me peculiar--you won't be the first / Suzanne O'Neil -- My mother's final wishes / Debbie Kasper -- Cheese / Ann Slichter -- Mother to no one / Andrea Carla Michaels -- Motherhood adoption ambivalence / Jeanne Dorsey -- The flying none / Tracy Smith -- Not's landing / Beth Lapides -- Sitting on the fence / Maureen Langan -- You'll never babysit in this town (again) / Suzy Soro -- Why I didn't have any children this summer / Betsy Salkind -- Motherhood once removed / Judy Morgan -- Baby doubt / Cindy Caponera -- Mommy boo-boo / Amy Stiller -- Buddha and me / Judy Nielsen -- Not pregnant at the ob-gyn / Nancy Van Iderstine -- Alice in Brazil / Nancy Shayne -- Why I am "barren" / Vanda Mikoloski -- Bearing it / Wendy Liebman -- Who shall bear witness? / Jeanette Schwaba Vigne -- The plus of child-less / Cheryl Bricker -- Why I never had a kid / Merrill Markoe -- Tiny chocolate cakes / Susan Norfleet -- I kid you not / Kathryn Rossetter -- Björn again / Jennifer Prediger -- The pathology of motherhood / Valri Bromfield -- What's it all about, Dudley? / Patricia Scanlon -- About the editor -- About the contributors.
Summary:
In a collection of essays, women writers and personalities, including Margaret Cho, Laurie Graff, and Wendy Liebman, reveal why they opted out of motherhood.
Other authors:
Mantel, Henriette.
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