Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1: Modern Women -- Chapter 2: Love is Rich -- Chapter 3: How to Get Married -- Chapter 4: The Dating Bermuda Triangle -- Chapter 5: Where Are the Suitable Men? -- Chapter 6: From Boys to Men -- Chapter 7: Old-Fashioned Dating -- Chapter 8: Married Men of Manhattan -- Chapter 9: Single, Again -- Chapter 10: The Princes and the Poseurs -- Chapter 11: Rachel Meets Harrison Black -- Chapter 12: Sex in the Otherhood -- Chapter 13: Was It Choice or Chance? -- Chapter 14: What Choice Do We Have? -- Chapter 15: A Date with Destiny -- Chapter 16: My Last Chance -- Chapter 17: The Vows We Make -- Chapter 18: Women and Careers -- Chapter 19: The Savvy Aunties -- Chapter 20: Izzy Was Robbed -- Chapter 21: My Lonely Grief -- Chapter 22: Our Nest Eggs -- Chapter 23: Mirabelle Is Having a Moment -- Chapter 24: Basket Full of Mixed Emotions -- Chapter 25: The Next Girls -- Chapter 26: We Have a Lot to Celebrate.
Summary:
"The rising percentage of childless women is one of the most overlooked and underappreciated social issues of our time. Never before have more women lived longer before having their first child or remained childless toward the end of their fertility. Nearly half of North American women of childbearing age are childless--a dramatic rise from 35 percent in 1976--yet childless women are still perceived as the exception, not the norm. In Otherhood, Melanie Notkin explores this modern phenomenon to understand the reasons for this shift, the social and emotional impact of childlessness, and how the "new normal" will impact social structures in the decades to come. By turns anecdotal storytelling, inspiration, reportage, and manifesto, Otherhood gets at the heart of our social consciousness around childlessness to trigger thought-provoking conversation. Notkin's intimate take on the trend affecting so many modern women is a groundbreaking exploration of this essential social issue"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.