A womans decision not to have children is never a simple, rational choice between equivalent outcomes, as individual reproductive decisions are made in social contexts that regulate women through their bodies. As motherhood is discursively constructed as "natural", "normal" and integral to healthy adult femininity, childfree women must redefine their understandings of femininity and gendered terms. This book celebrates the pleasures and freedoms of difference, as articulated by childfree women in interviews and focus groups. Their agentive femininity marked them as special...