WITHOUT CHILD: CHALLENGING THE STIGMA OF CHILDLESSNESS

Book ID/图书代码： 11708106B07921

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Chinese Summary/中文概要： 沒生過孩子的女人是不完整、不幸福的？挑戰無子的污名！

本書是作者Laurie Lisle對自己走上不育之路的反思。她將自身的經驗與歷史社會研究、通俗論述等相對照，緩緩鋪陳出不育女性的共同處境及命運，發現時至今日，拒絕為人父母仍然要承受沉重的壓力與污名。
作者指出選擇不育者既非「不自然」，也不是自私或沒有愛心，更不見得人生就不幸福；因為孕育與繁衍的真正定義並非僅有生兒育女一途，她希望無所出的女人由此獲得借鏡，在母職之外肯定自己的女性樣貌。打破沉默、公開討論，女性與（非）母職的關聯是作者寫作本書的原始動機及目的。
沒生過孩子的女人是不完整、不幸福的？都是一些老處女、老姑婆、女性主義者？本書作者選擇走上不育之路，企圖挑戰無子的污名，希望在母職之外女人亦能走向積極正面的人生。(VL)

Awards/获奖情况：“The ‘rejection of parenthood,’ as the author of this carefully researched study found, ‘is a delicate and even dangerous topic.’ Lisle speaks for herself and the generation of women who came of age in the 1970s who are childless for a variety of reasons, but often by choice...Lisle pierces some of the myths and stereotypes that surround non-mothers. She reveals a long and laudable history of women without progeny, and indicated that there has been ambivalence in mothers and non-mothers alike about their roles. As an advocate for a misunderstood minority, she points to the many ways a woman’s childlessness, often perceived as selfish, can promote and nurture life-enhancing relationships."---Publisher’s Weekly

“At last, an intelligent analysis of the powerful societal pressure upon women to become mothers, and a searching description of how the decision not to bear a child may result from any number of choices, neither selfish nor irrational. The enormous contribution of childless women to our cultural heritage is astonishing, but we have rarely drawn intelligent conclusions from this fact. Laurie Lisle has written a timely book assuring us that the true definition of womanhood need not include childbirth.”---Carolyn Heilbrun, author of Writing a Woman’s Life

“Laurie Lisle has given us an eloquent and insightful discussion of childlessness and women who end up—by design or default—remaining without child. Personal and political, current and historical, the book examines the complicated choice all woman must make about motherhood. A wonderful read for mothers and non-mothers alike, a book that can bridge the gap that sometimes seems to exist between the two.”---Anne Taylor Fleming, author of Motherhood Deferred: A Woman’s Journey

About the Author/作者介绍： Laurie Lisle is the author of Portrait of an Artist (1980), the bestselling biography of Georgia O’Keeffe, and Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life (1990). She lives in Connecticut and Westchester County, New York.http://laurielisle.com/index.htm

Format:HARDCOVER

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