A feat of diligent research and, better yet, blazing argument.

Impeccably researched.

From the outset, she exposes the entangled forces of circumstance and decision that have led some women not to have children. In doing so, she offers a way of moving beyond motherhood as an overdetermined function of personal choice, and of an identity politics so profound and pervasive that it positions mothers and childless women at opposite ends of a spectrum..

Provocative and well researched, this book offers compassionate insight into the history and predicaments of women who have embraced the 'never... uncommon and [now] increasingly common' childless life..

Incisive.