What is "woman" if not "mother"?
Anything she wants to be.
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. But what if instead we were seen as boldly forging a first-in-a-civilization vision for a fully autonomous womankind? Or as journalist and thought leader Ruby Warrington asks in her new book, WOMEN WITHOUT KIDS, “What if being a woman without kids were in fact its own kind of legacy?”
With the primary aim of valorizing the path of non-motherhood - no matter how we find ourselves here - Women Without Kids is equally a deep dive into all the factors driving the drop off in the birth rate globally, from the personal, the familial, and the ancestral, to the social, the political, and the environmental. Both bold and tenderhearted and wide-ranging in its scope, WOMEN WITHOUT KIDS seeks to unite 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.
About The Author...
Ruby Warrington is an author and former features editor of the UK's Sunday Times Style supplement. In 2013 she created The Numinous, an online magazine that has been at the forefront of conversations about modern spirituality. Widely credited with coining the term "sober curious," she is also the host of the Sober Curious podcast and author of Women Without Kids, Material Girl, Mystical World, Sober Curious, and The Numinous Astro Deck. She lives in New York City.
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