Women are taught from the earliest moments of life that motherhood, along with marriage to a man, is a natural state to which they should aspire. From dollplay as a child to nagging questions of when am I going to become a grandparent as one gets older, the societal pressure to procreate is constant and intense. What then, of women who choose not to have children or are unable to have children? How do they respond to a society and to families that view them as selfish, incomplete, and less then women?
In Will You Be Mother? Jane Bartlett interviews fifty women who, for...
Women are taught from the earliest moments of life that motherhood, along with marriage to a man, is a natural state to which they should aspire. F...
Women are taught from the earliest moments of life that motherhood, along with marriage to a man, is a natural state to which they should aspire. From dollplay as a child to nagging questions of when am I going to become a grandparent as one gets older, the societal pressure to procreate is constant and intense. What then, of women who choose not to have children or are unable to have children? How do they respond to a society and to families that view them as selfish, incomplete, and less then women?
In Will You Be Mother? Jane Bartlett interviews fifty women who, for...
Women are taught from the earliest moments of life that motherhood, along with marriage to a man, is a natural state to which they should aspire. F...
