Will You Be Mother?: Women Who Choose to Say No

Abstract

In a society that defines women in relation to motherhood, those who choose to remain child-free are seen as selfish, incomplete. Jane Bartlett has interviewed 50 women - those who have chosen to be sterilized in their 20s, others who can never say never, but postpone ambivalences, women in their 60s who are happy with their choice, and infertile women who have none. They speak of how their own childhoods shaped their frustration at the pressures placed upon them and they express their sense of freedom.

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