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Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children, by Sylvia Ann Hewlett (Miramax). Explores the dilemma facing women with jobs they're reluctant to leave or compromise, or who worry they've waited too long to bear children.
Women Without Children: Nurturing Lives, by Yvonne Marie Vissing (Rutgers). A look at childlessness as it cuts across social and cultural lines.
Cheerfully Childless: The Humor Book for Those Who Hesitate to Procreate, by Ellen Metter and Loretta Gomez (Browser). Walks a thin line but is likely to trigger at least a smile or two.
Without Child: Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness, by Laurie Lisle (Routledge). A personal look at the issue by an author who almost forgot about motherhood.
Beyond Childlessness: For Every Woman Who Ever Wanted to Have a Child -- and Didn't, by Rachel Black and Louise Scull (Rodale). A thorough examination of such elements as fertility treatments, adoption and grief. Includes references and practical support.
Oriana Fallaci's Letter to a Child Never Born, translated by John Shepley (Simon & Schuster), now out-of-print but obtainable through Amazon.com. An examination of freedom vs. motherhood, pregnancy vs. professional life, and all the dilemmas therein.
-- Nancy Rome
