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A deeply personal exploration of childless and childfree women-in their own words.
“Others Like Me” is the story of fourteen women around the world, from different walks of life, who don't have children. It's also the story of why Nicole Louie had to find these women and what they taught her. Part memoir, part exploration of childlessness through candid conversations, this book showcases the many ways in which people find fulfilment outside of parenthood. And because the social expectation to procreate weighs the most on women, Louie focuses solely on them, their experiences, and how they flourish outside of motherhood. In doing so, she upends the stereotypes that diminish women who are childless by choice, circumstance, or ambivalence and offers reassurance and companionship on a path less known.
• The tone of the book is progressive and warm, balanced, carefully considered and aware of different journeys of women who are not mothers. Accessible but not saccharine; not preachy or loaded with statistics.
• In a world that expects all women to become mothers, many women won't. The reasons are many. So are the ways to live without children and to feel about it. And contrary to what is believed by many, there can be satisfaction, joy, and purpose outside of motherhood.
• The author is Brazillian but she looks at women from all over the world, so it's not just a white Western perspective.
• For female identifying persons 20 and over—those who are facing the choice of whether to enter motherhood, those who have, or those who are trying to make peace with the reality that motherhood is not something they will experience, although the focus is not at all about infertility.
• The book challenges stereotypes: like the sorrowful infertile woman, the promiscuous childfree woman, the poor spinster who can't find love anywhere, etc.
“Others Like Me” is the story of fourteen women around the world, from different walks of life, who don't have children. It's also the story of why Nicole Louie had to find these women and what they taught her. Part memoir, part exploration of childlessness through candid conversations, this book showcases the many ways in which people find fulfilment outside of parenthood. And because the social expectation to procreate weighs the most on women, Louie focuses solely on them, their experiences, and how they flourish outside of motherhood. In doing so, she upends the stereotypes that diminish women who are childless by choice, circumstance, or ambivalence and offers reassurance and companionship on a path less known.
• The tone of the book is progressive and warm, balanced, carefully considered and aware of different journeys of women who are not mothers. Accessible but not saccharine; not preachy or loaded with statistics.
• In a world that expects all women to become mothers, many women won't. The reasons are many. So are the ways to live without children and to feel about it. And contrary to what is believed by many, there can be satisfaction, joy, and purpose outside of motherhood.
• The author is Brazillian but she looks at women from all over the world, so it's not just a white Western perspective.
• For female identifying persons 20 and over—those who are facing the choice of whether to enter motherhood, those who have, or those who are trying to make peace with the reality that motherhood is not something they will experience, although the focus is not at all about infertility.
• The book challenges stereotypes: like the sorrowful infertile woman, the promiscuous childfree woman, the poor spinster who can't find love anywhere, etc.