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No kidding : women writers on bypassing parenthood / foreword by Jennifer Coolidge ; edited by Henriette Mantel.

Berkeley, California : Seal Press, [2013]

xiv, 233 pages ; 21 cm

In a collection of essays, women writers and personalities, including Margaret Cho, Laurie Graff, and Wendy Liebman, reveal why they opted out of motherhood.

Childlessness.

Parenthood.

Families.

Choice (Psychology)

Mantel, Henriette, editor.

Includes bibliographical references.

The morning dance -- I wouldn't know where to begin -- What to expect when you're never expecting -- All of it -- The greatest thing I never did -- On not choosing children -- In-fertile ground -- No free babysitter -- First comes love -- Aha, ha ha -- Without issue -- Call me peculiar-you won't be the first -- My mother's final wishes -- Cheese -- Mother to no one -- Motherhood adoption ambivalence -- The flying none -- Not's landing -- Sitting on the fence -- You'll never babysit in this town(again) -- Why I didn't have any children this summer -- Motherhood once removed -- Baby doubt -- Mommy boo-boo -- Buddha and me -- Not pregnant at the ob-gyn -- Alice in Brazil -- Why I am "barren" -- Bearing it -- Who shall bear witness? -- The plus of child-less -- Why I never had a kid -- Tiny chocolate cakes -- I kid you not -- Björn again -- The pathology of motherhood -- What's it all about, Dudley?

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