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Women Without Kids

By: Ruby Warrington
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What is "woman" if not "mother"?
Anything she wants to be.

Foregoing 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. Instead of continuing to paint women without kids as sad, self-obsessed, or somehow dysfunctional, what if we saw them as boldly forging a new vision for a fully autonomous womankind? Or as journalist and thought leader Ruby Warrington asks, what if being a woman without kids were in fact its own kind of legacy?

Taking in themes from intergenerational healing to feminism to environmentalism, this personal look and anthropological dig into a stubbornly taboo topic is a timely and brave reframing of what it means not to be a mum. Whether we are childless by design or circumstance, we can live without regret, shame, or compromise.

Bold and tenderhearted, Women Without Kids seeks first and foremost to help validate a path that is the natural consequence of women having more say about the choices we make and how our lives play out. Within this, it unites the unsung sisterhood of non-mothers as a vital part of our evolution and collective healing as women, as humans, and as a global family.

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©2023 Ruby Warrington (P)2023 Orion Publishing Group Limited
Gender Studies Parenting & Families Relationships Social Sciences Sociology
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Ruby Warrington elegantly and intelligently put into words, all of the thoughts and feelings I have about choosing to not have kids. I was really touched how emotional she was reading some parts of her book, and cried along with her. She’s real and authentic and has inspired me to build my own sisterhood of childfree women as I age. Women In Total Control of Herself (witch(es)). I’m excited for this future.

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What a nuanced journey into the feminine. It goes into many crucial issues and reasons but most importantly it fosters a sense of community and validation supporting self care and inner knowing - Thank you Ruby

If I could give it 10 stars I would

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Thank you Ruby for taking the time and making the commitment to bring this book to life. As a woman without kids I am grateful for you unpacking a diverse number of contributions to this reality that exist for women the world over.
Now into my wisdom years I have greater peace about not being a parent and a more significant relationship with the truth that whilst I love children and am the best Aunt, I never really saw myself as a mother.
Circumstance played out that I didn’t get to become a mother during the brief time I tried convincing myself I wanted to be, swayed by societal expectation and a husband at that time.
Now, beyond my physical window of being able to have a child I’m grateful that I don’t. And I’m grateful of the role I get to fulfill in supporting the children in my family whilst having abundant opportunity to live a life I wouldn’t have lived in motherhood had been part of it.

Fascinating opportunity to reflect

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