- Editorial:
- BASIC BOOKS
- Año de edición:
- 2023
- ISBN:
- 978-1-5416-7557-5
- Páginas:
- 256
WITHOUT CHILDREN
THE LONG HISTORY OF NOT BEING A MOTHER
PEGGY O'DONNELL HEFFINGTON
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A historian explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood in this timely, refreshingly open-hearted study of the choices women make and the cards theyre dealt (Ada Calhoun, author of Why We Cant Sleep).
In an era of falling births, its often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids. But history is full of women without children: some who chose childless lives, others who wanted children but never had them, and still othersthe vast majority, then and nowwho fell somewhere in between. Modern women considering how and if children fit into their lives are products of their political, ecological, and cultural moment. But history also tells them that they are not alone.
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Drawing on deep research and her own experience as a woman without children, historian Peggy ODonnell Heffington shows that many of the reasons women are not having children today are ones they share with women in the past: a lack of support, their jobs or finances, environmental concerns, infertility, and the desire to live different kinds of lives. Understanding this historyhow normal it has always been to not have children, and how hard society has worked to make it seem abnormalis key, she writes, to rebuilding kinship between mothers and non-mothers, and to building a better world for us all.
