Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-307).
Title page; Contents; Author's note; 1 Wondering what's so bloody wonderful; 2 Triggering a brawl: I said, you said, she said ... ; 3 Drop the baby -- put it in the 'possibles': unravelling my own story; 4 'Having it all' -- a f up feminist fantasy?; 5 A child-riddled career; 6 The mummy backlash; 7 The baby strike -- a fertility crisis?; 8 The childless revolution; 9 Wanted: a way out of the unbearable lightness of modern-day coupling; 10 Going it along: a jam jar of seed ... ; 11 The child-free zone; 12 Held to ransom by hope in a test tube; 13 Negotiating the divide: mother vs non-mother.
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A book for women about how the conscious and unconscious choices we make in our ambitious and focused 20s and 30s around the big issues of career, love and sex ultimately shape and define us.