Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood

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A timely and radical reframing of everything it means not to be a momWhat is "woman" if not "mother"? Forgoing motherhood has traditionally marked a woman as "other." With no official place setting for her in our society, she has hovered on the sidelines: the quirky girl, the neurotic career obsessive, the "eccentric" aunt. Instead of continuing to paint women without kids as sad, self-obsessed, or somehow dysfunctional, what if we saw them as boldly forging a first-in-a-civilization vision for a fully autonomous womankind? Or as journalist and thought leader Ruby Warrington asks, "What if being a woman without kids were in fact its own kind of legacy?"Taking in themes from intergenerational healing to feminism to environmentalism, this personal look and anthropological dig into a stubbornly taboo topic is a timely and brave reframing of everything it means not to be a mom. Set against the backdrop of an unprecedented global reproduction slowdown, "the choice of whether or not to have kids is a natural part of women's ongoing fight for gender equality, " Warrington writes. "And whether we are childless by design or circumstance, we can live without regret, shame, or compromise."Bold and tenderhearted, Women Without Kids unites the "unsung sisterhood" of non-mothers-no longer pariahs or misfits, but a vital part of our evolution and collective healing, as women, as humans, and as a global family.