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Nobody’s Mother
Nobody's Mothers Are Indeed Somebodies
Today's young women are better educated and more independent than they have ever been; yet many of them still grapple with questions about society and their role within it. They wonder how best to combine their careers with satisfactory private lives. They are skeptical about feminism and unsure about their futures. Popular media has inundated them with a conflicting miscellany of terms: the Glass Ceiling; the Mommy Track; Double Income No Kids (DINK); and perhaps most unnerving of all, the Yummy Mummy.
In Nobody's Mother: Life Without Kids, editor Lynne Van Luven has brought together a thoughtful group of 21 women of various ages and backgrounds whose frank essays about being childless are probing, provocative and entertaining. Some of the essayists are child-free intentionally, some by circumstance, some by a simple twist of fate. But all the contributors to this lively anthology have one thing in common: they are content with their lives and do not view themselves as freaks or failures because they have not had children.
With a foreword by broadcaster Shelagh Rogers, Nobody's Mother is not only a wonderful resource for women's studies programs across North America, but also an illuminating look at a choice that, according to some statistics, one in 10 women is making.
Lynne Van Luven has been either a journalist or a teacher for the past 30-something years. She is the editor of Going Some Place: Creative Non-Fiction Across Canada, the first Canadian anthology of creative non-fiction ever published, released by Coteau Books in 2000. She has been teaching journalism and non-fiction at the University of Victoria since 1997. She has a PhD in Canadian literature and is the Director of the Professional Writing Minor in Journalism and Publishing at the University of Victoria's Department of Writing.
-- Touchwood Editions
Today's young women are better educated and more independent than they have ever been; yet many of them still grapple with questions about society and their role within it. They wonder how best to combine their careers with satisfactory private lives. They are skeptical about feminism and unsure about their futures. Popular media has inundated them with a conflicting miscellany of terms: the Glass Ceiling; the Mommy Track; Double Income No Kids (DINK); and perhaps most unnerving of all, the Yummy Mummy.
In Nobody's Mother: Life Without Kids, editor Lynne Van Luven has brought together a thoughtful group of 21 women of various ages and backgrounds whose frank essays about being childless are probing, provocative and entertaining. Some of the essayists are child-free intentionally, some by circumstance, some by a simple twist of fate. But all the contributors to this lively anthology have one thing in common: they are content with their lives and do not view themselves as freaks or failures because they have not had children.
With a foreword by broadcaster Shelagh Rogers, Nobody's Mother is not only a wonderful resource for women's studies programs across North America, but also an illuminating look at a choice that, according to some statistics, one in 10 women is making.
Lynne Van Luven has been either a journalist or a teacher for the past 30-something years. She is the editor of Going Some Place: Creative Non-Fiction Across Canada, the first Canadian anthology of creative non-fiction ever published, released by Coteau Books in 2000. She has been teaching journalism and non-fiction at the University of Victoria since 1997. She has a PhD in Canadian literature and is the Director of the Professional Writing Minor in Journalism and Publishing at the University of Victoria's Department of Writing.
-- Touchwood Editions
Submitted on October 20, 2006 in By David.
