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020			_a9781541675575 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1541675576 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1340744353 _z(OCoLC)1356621592
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050	0	0	_aHQ755.8 _b.O336 2023
082	0	0	_a306.85 _223/eng/20221114
092			_ageneral nonfiction _b306.85 Heffington
100	1		_aO'Donnell Heffington, Peggy _eauthor. _96467622
245	1	0	_aWithout children : _bthe long history of not being a mother / _cPeggy O'Donnell Heffington.
250			_aFirst edition
264		1	_aNew York : _bSeal Press, _c2023.
300			_ax, 245 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext
337			_aunmediated
338			_avolume
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 203-232) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: We're not having children -- Because we've always made choices -- Because we'll be on our own -- Because we can't have it all -- Because of the planet -- Because we can't -- Because we want other lives -- Conclusion: And, if, you'll forgive me for asking, why should we?
520			_a"From Joan of Arc to Queen Elizabeth I, to Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, to Sally Ride and Jennifer Aniston, history is full of women without children. Some chose to forgo reproduction in order to pursue intellectually satisfying work--a tension noted by medieval European nuns, 1970s women's liberationists, and modern professionals alike. Some refused to bring children into a world beset by famine, pollution, or climate change. For others, childlessness was involuntary: infertility has been a source of anguish all the way back to the biblical Hannah. But most women without children didn't--and don't--perceive themselves as either proudly childfree or tragically barren. Seventeenth century French colonists in North America, struggling without the kind of community support they enjoyed in their mother country, found themselves postponing children until a better moment that, for many of them, never arrived. It is women like these--whose ambivalence throughout their child-bearing years inevitably makes their choice for them--that make up the vast majority of millennials without children in the United States. Drawing on deep archival research and her own experience as a woman without children, historian Peggy O'Donnell shows modern women who are struggling to build lives and to figure out whether those lives allow for children that they are part of a long historical lineage-and that they are certainly not alone"--
650		0	_aChildlessness
650		0	_aChildlessness _xSocial aspects. _96467623
650		0	_aWomen _xPsychology _994000
650		0	_aInterpersonal relations _xPsychological aspects. _96439591
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