No kidding
Subtitle: women writers on bypassing parenthood
By: foreword by Jennifer Coolidge ; edited by Henriette Mantel
Publisher: Seal Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berkeley, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781580054430
Subjects: Parenthood; Families; Choice (Psychology); Childlessness
Description: In a collection of essays, women writers and personalities, including Margaret Cho, Laurie Graff, and Wendy Liebman, reveal why they opted out of motherhood.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The morning dance; title: I wouldn't know where to begin; title: What to expect when you're never expecting; title: All of it; title: The greatest thing I never did; title: On not choosing children; title: In-fertile ground; title: No free babysitter; title: First comes love; title: Aha, ha ha; title: Without issue; title: Call me peculiar-you won't be the first; title: My mother's final wishes; title: Cheese; title: Mother to no one; title: Motherhood adoption ambivalence; title: The flying none; title: Not's landing; title: Sitting on the fence; title: You'll never babysit in this town(again); title: Why I didn't have any children this summer; title: Motherhood once removed; title: Baby doubt; title: Mommy boo-boo; title: Buddha and me; title: Not pregnant at the ob-gyn; title: Alice in Brazil; title: Why I am "barren"; title: Bearing it; title: Who shall bear witness?; title: The plus of child-less; title: Why I never had a kid; title: Tiny chocolate cakes; title: I kid you not; title: Björn again; title: The pathology of motherhood; title: What's it all about, Dudley?