Without Child Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness [WorldCat Entities]

""Explores the facts and fallacies behind childlessness, what it means for women and society, and reminds us of how women can and do embrace this choice." Lisle also examines the cultural traditions of childlessness."@en
"Weaves materials from history, literature, religion, and sociology along with personal stories of the author's and others'; explores the facts and fallacies behind childlessness, what it means for women and society, and how women can and do embrace this choice."@en
"Weaves materials from history, literature, religion, and sociology along with personal stories of the author's and others'; explores the facts and fallacies behind childlessness, what it means for women and society, and how women can and do embrace this choice."
"Without Child challenges the stigma of childlessness by offering childless women the lifeaffirming story of themselves. Beginning with the difficult inner journey a woman faces before finally deciding or realizing she will not bear children, Without Child explores the myth of the childless woman's rejection of the maternal instinct. It also examines the childless woman's relationship to mothers and mothering, to her femininity, to men, to achievement, to her body, and to old age. Laurie Lisle contends that childless women are part of an ancient and respectable cultural."@en