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Modern Women Finding A New Kind of Happiness
Seal Press
March 2014
On Sale: February 25, 2014
322 pages
ISBN: 1580055214
EAN: 9781580055215
Kindle: B00H128HLY
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Non-Fiction
More American women are childless than ever before—nearly
half those of childbearing age don’t have children. While
our society often assumes these women are “childfree by
choice,” that’s not always true. In reality, many of them
expected to marry and have children, but it simply hasn’t
happened. Wrongly judged as picky or career-obsessed, they
make up the “Otherhood,” a growing demographic that has gone
without definition or visibility until now.
In
Otherhood, author Melanie Notkin reveals her own
story as well as the honest, poignant, humorous, and
occasionally heartbreaking stories of women in her
generation—women who expected love, marriage, and
parenthood, but instead found themselves facing a different
reality. She addresses the reasons for this shift, the
social and emotional impact it has on our collective
culture, and how the “new normal” will affect our society in
the decades to come.
Notkin aims to reassure women
that they are not alone and encourages them to find
happiness and fulfillment no matter what the future holds. A
groundbreaking exploration of an essential contemporary
issue, Otherhood inspires thought-provoking
conversation and gets at the heart of our cultural
assumptions about single women and childlessness.
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