Bearing life
Subtitle: women's writings on childlessness
By: edited by Rochelle Ratner.
Contributors: Ratner, Rochelle.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Childlessness -- Literary collections.; American literature -- Women authors.; American literature -- 20th century.; Women -- Literary collections.
Genres: Literary collections.
Description: "A wall of silence surrounds the experience of women who are childless, whether by choice or by circumstance. Bearing Life is the first anthology to marshall the power of literature to break this silence. Here, more than forty contemporary writers reflect candidly and movingly on what it means to live as women without children.

These selections move through the ambivalence and denial childless women confront within themselves, to the misunderstanding and hostility they confront in the outside world, toward a point where an acceptance and even celebration of childlessness can begin to take place."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-244).