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Without Child by Laurie Lisle
Without Child by Laurie Lisle










In the shadow of a culture that claims to adore the child, Without Child brings a long forbidden topic into the light. It also explores the childless woman's relationship to mothers and mothering, to her femininity, to men, to achievement, to her body, and to old age. 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. Without Child also challenges the stigma of childlessness by offering childless women the life-affirming story of themselves. Without Child brings childless women out of the shadows and places them back in women's history. However, like other aspects of women's history, this tradition has been forgotten and, in the process, maligned. Lisle contends that childless women are part of an ancient and respectable cultural tradition that includes Biblical matriarchs, celibate saints, and nineteenth century social reformers. Without Child 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. But for those women who are willingly or unwillingly without children, childlessness is a way of life that many of them must constantly defend. Most women grow up thinking they will become mothers.

Without Child by Laurie Lisle

Weaving rich materials from history, literature, religion, and sociology with Laurie Lisle's own and other personal stories, this groundbreaking book does what no other has done before-presents childlessness in a multifaceted and positive light.

Without Child by Laurie Lisle

Without Child brings scope and depth to a subject that has long been misunderstood.












Without Child by Laurie Lisle