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According to recent surveys, approximately 40% of American women between the ages of 18 and 44 do not have children. Yet these women are virtually missing from accounts of women's lives. In this important new work, Mardy Ireland defines a place for women outside the parameters of motherhood and gives voice to the significant number of women who are not mothers. She draws extensively from interviews with over 100 childless women from various ethnic and educational backgrounds, demonstrating the myriad ways they came to view themselves as complete adults without recourse to the traditional defining criteria of motherhood. Her work offers all women--mothers and nonmothers alike--a vision of self-defined adulthood and a recognition that every woman is the subject of her own life.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Reconceiving Women
• Subtitle: Separating Motherhood from Female Identity
• Author: M.S. Ireland
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 195
• EAN: 9780898620160
• ISBN: 9780898620160
• ID: 06593975
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Weight: 336 g
• Dimensions: 227 × 162 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. August 1993

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