Motherhood And Choice
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Motherhood And Choice
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Author : Amrita Nandy
language : en
Publisher: Zubaan
Release Date : 2017-10-02
Motherhood And Choice written by Amrita Nandy and has been published by Zubaan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-02 with Social Science categories.
How can women live fully? If autonomy is critical for humans, why do women have little or no choice vis-à-vis motherhood? Do women know they have a choice, if they do? How 'free' are these choices in a context where the self is socially mired and deeply enmeshed into the familial? What are implications of motherhood on how human relatedness and belonging are defined? These questions underlie Amrita Nandy's remarkable research on motherhood as an institution, one that conflates 'woman' with 'mother' and 'personal' with 'political'. As the bedrock of human survival and an unchallenged norm of 'normal' female lives, motherhood expects and even compels women to be mothers—symbolic and corporeal. Even though the ideology of pronatalism and motherhood reinforce reproductive technology and vice versa, the care work of mothering suffers political neglect and economic devaluation. However, motherhood (and non-motherhood) is not just physiological. As the pivot to a web of heteronormative institutions (such as marriage and the family), motherhood bears an overwhelming and decisive influence on women's lives. Against the weight of traditional and contemporary histories, socio-political discourse and policies, this study explores how women, as embodiments of multiple identities, could live stigma-free, 'authentic' lives without having to abandon reproductive 'self'-determination. Published by Zubaan.
Single By Chance Mothers By Choice
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Author : Rosanna Hertz
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008
Single By Chance Mothers By Choice written by Rosanna Hertz and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Family & Relationships categories.
The remarkable number of women taking the daunting step of having children outside of marriage is explored in this account of this fast-growing phenomenon, revealing why middle-class women have taken an unorthodox approach to parenthood and how they are making it work.
Motherhood By Choice
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Author : Perdita Huston
language : en
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Release Date : 1992
Motherhood By Choice written by Perdita Huston and has been published by Feminist Press at CUNY this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
   To honor the 40th anniversary of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, journalist Perdita Huston travelled the world to gather this remarkable collection of oral histories of and about the often unknown leaders of a worldwide movement to bring women their reproductive rights. Drawing on personal interviews, Huston delineates the motivations, strategies, and heartaches of twelve pioneers-eight women, four men-both from the developing world, before and after colonial rule, and from industrialized countries, who braved scorn and abuse to raise the issues of family planning, contraception, and sex education, and to fight for improved healthcare for women. These moving testimonies reflect the personal leadership style of each pioneer from Dr. Evangelina Rodriquez, the first woman doctor in the Dominican Republic, who defied church policies and the corrupt dictator Trujillo to promote family planning and fight the spread of venereak disease; to Miyoski Ohba who contended with innumerable taboos in postwar Japan to introduce poor villagers to the use of condoms; to Elsie Ottsen-Jensen, born in 1886 to a poor Norwegian family of 17 children, who became acutely aware of the high rate of maternal mortality throughout turn-of-the-century Scandinavia and went on to found the Swedish Association of Sex Educators in 1933. Motherhood by Choice stands as a significant historical document tracing the development of public health services, sex education, and contraceptive services that will inspire and inform all who are concerned about women's health and reproductive rights.
Going Solo
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Author : Jean Renvoize
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-08-09
Going Solo written by Jean Renvoize and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-09 with Family & Relationships categories.
Originally published in 1985, this, at the time, controversial book explores the fundamental changes in personal relationships that had taken place over the previous decade, focusing on women who had deliberately chosen to have children outside a permanent relationship. After travelling widely throughout Britain, the United States and Holland meeting those personally involved, Jean Renvoize discusses why a growing number of women were deciding to become single mothers. She discovers the implications of this for the future of the family and for old-style love and commitment between the sexes. She analyses the position both of the children of these single families and of their mothers. She looks at men’s feelings about being used a ‘stud’ and uncovers the desire of some men to have a family without being financially and emotionally involved with a long-term partner. Importantly, Jean Renvoize places the new style of personal relationship in the context of the advance of the women’s movement. It is clear that ordinary and non-political women’s and men’s lives have been more fundamentally changed by feminism than they may realise. But few of the mothers interviewed by the author are actively feminist: lesbians apart, they all have in common past relationships with men, and would happily settle with the right man could their high expectations be met. Without exception, all those who made the deliberate choice to ‘go solo’ have loving, joyful and rewarding experiences of motherhood. Having a child alone has been fraught with problems for all, but those who have met the challenge have found such great fulfilment that one is faced with an inevitable question: are a woman and her child better off without a man? When so many marriages end in divorce, is a stable unit of two better than a broken unit of three? But also, might those without the motivation of successful ‘solo mothers’ rush thoughtlessly into motherhood – and find themselves exhausted, broke and very unhappy? Presenting in their own words the experiences of those directly involved, this was above all a practical book. It provided welcome and necessary insights into the changing pattern of relationships at the time – for the married and unmarried; for parents and non-parents. Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.
Mother S Choice
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Author : Agbo Areo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Mother S Choice written by Agbo Areo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Blacks categories.
Single Mothers By Choice
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Author : Jane Mattes, L.C.S.W.
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2013-04-24
Single Mothers By Choice written by Jane Mattes, L.C.S.W. and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-24 with Family & Relationships categories.
The first handbook for the rapidly growing number of American women choosing single motherhood, written by the director of the national organization, Single Mothers by Choice.
Pregnancy Motherhood And Choice In Twentieth Century Arizona
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Author : Mary S. Melcher
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2012-09-20
Pregnancy Motherhood And Choice In Twentieth Century Arizona written by Mary S. Melcher and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-20 with History categories.
Mary Melcher's Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Choice in Twentieth-Century Arizona provides a deep and diverse history of the dramatic changes in childbirth, birth control, infant mortality, and abortion over the course of the last century. Using oral histories, memoirs, newspaper accounts, government documents, letters, photos, and biographical collections, this fine-grained study of women's reproductive health places the voices of real women at the forefront of the narrative, providing a personal view into some of the most intense experiences of their lives.
Hard Choices
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Author : Kathleen Gerson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1985
Hard Choices written by Kathleen Gerson and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Political Science categories.
"A clear, well-crafted, and convincing account of the account of the complex 'push-pulls' that affect women's life choices about work and motherhood. It therefore fills a unique niche: there are no books like this one that I know of, yet it touches on one of the most fundamental issues addressed by those who are interested in women's studies."—Kristin Luker
Choosing Single Motherhood
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Author : Mikki Morrissette
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2008
Choosing Single Motherhood written by Mikki Morrissette and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Family & Relationships categories.
The comprehensive guide for single women interested in proactively becoming a mother--includes the essential tools needed to decide whether to take this step, information on how best to follow through, and insight about answering the child's questions and needs over time. Choosing Single Motherhood, written by a longtime journalist and Choice Mother (a woman who chooses to conceive or adopt without a life partner), will become the indispensable tool for women looking for both support and insight. Based on extensive up-to-date research, advice from child experts and family therapists, as well as interviews with more than one hundred single women, this book explores common questions and concerns of women facing this decision, including: - Can I afford to do this? - Should I wait longer to see if life turns a new corner? - How do Choice Mothers handle the stress of solo parenting? - What the research says about growing up in a single-parent household - How to answer a child's "daddy" questions - The facts about adoption, anonymous donor insemination, and finding a known donor - How the children of pioneering Choice Mothers feel about their lives Written in a lively style that never sugarcoats or sweeps problems under the rug, Choosing Single Motherhood covers the topic clearly, concisely, and with a great deal of heart.
Motherhood
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Author : Sheila Heti
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2018-05-24
Motherhood written by Sheila Heti and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-24 with Fiction categories.
'A response - finally - to the new norms of femininity' Rachel Cusk Having reached an age when most of her peers are asking themselves when they will become mothers, Heti's narrator considers, with the same urgency, whether she will do so at all. Over the course of several years, under the influence of her partner, body, family, friends, mysticism and chance, she struggles to make a moral and meaningful choice. In a compellingly direct mode that straddles the forms of the novel and the essay, Motherhood raises radical and essential questions about womanhood, parenthood, and how - and for whom - to live. 'Likely to become the defining literary work on the subject' Guardian 'Courageous, necessary, visionary' Elif Batuman 'Quietly affecting... As concerned with art as it is with mothering' Sally Rooney 'Groundbreaking in its fluidity' Spectator **A Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Irish Times, Refinery29, TLS and The White Review Book of the Year **