I saw this article on the cover of "The Walrus" (a Canadian magazine) a while back while browsing the magazine racks at my local mega-bookstore... thought I would see if I could find it online... and (of course) completely forgot about it by the time I got home. :p ;) I found a link while browsing an online forum. It's an intelligent & sympathetic look at how women without children -- both by choice & otherwise -- are coming forward, finding each other and working to challenge pronatalist perceptions about their lives. It refers to/quotes some well-known leaders within the childless/free community, including Melanie Notkin of Savvy Auntie, Jody Day of Gateway Women, Laura Carroll (author of The Baby Matrix), Karen Malone Wright of The NotMom (last year's NotMom summit in Cleveland is a focal point of the article), Catherine-Emmanuelle Delisle of Femme Sans Enfant, Lisa Manterfield of Life Without Baby, and others, as well as interviews with several (mostly Canadian) women without children who are building happy and meaningful lives.
Well worth a read!
Thank you for sharing - and the mention!
ReplyDeleteThat's an excellent article! Thanks for pointing it out to me.
ReplyDeleteDear Loribeth, thanks a lot for sharing the link!
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