From the Book - First edition.
January 1953 / Evelyn C. Rosser
Reminded of my biological clock, while looking at Georgia O'Keeffe's Pelvis one / Denise Duhamel
Women without children; women without families; women alone / Irena Klepfisz
This is a question I do not answer / Mary Mackey
From Rita Will / Rita Mae Brown
Old maids / Sandra Cisneros
The daughter of fur / Marge Piercy
Tie me up, tie me off / Jodi Sh. Doff
Minor surgery / Hettie Jones
From The joy luck club / Amy Tan
Antisocial baby notes / Suzanne Ostro
Pretty story / Amy Hempel
Something I forgot to tell you / Deborah Boe
Meditations on childlessness / Vicki Lindner
The case against babies / Joy Williams
The arm baby / Lynda Schor
Outside the hive : a meditation on childlessness / Patricia Foster.
I get my period, September 1964 / Diane Di Prima
From Crossing the moon / Paulette Bates Alden
Forty, trembling / Wendy Rose
The wash house / Pamela Walker
Outside Pisa / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The deferred dream / Tory Dent
The childless woman poems / Becky Birtha
The mother / Joyce Carol Oates
Cutting my heart out : notes toward a novel / Sandra Scofield
The weremother / Kit Reed
Stork talk / Rochelle Ratner
Mother and two daughters / Janice Eidus
Taking the train to Harmon / Daniela Gioseffi
Norton #59900 / Judee Norton
The child taken from the mother / Minnie Bruce Pratt
In the garden / Grace Paley
All the colors of sunset / Luci Tapahonso
Mother of nothing / Naomi Shihab Nye.
Land of the living / Kathleen Norris
Liferower / Rebecca McClanahan
You remember Sophia / Valerie Miner
A lifetime / Ana Castillo
Hairball / Margaret Atwood
Chick without children : the latest celebrity interview / Nikki Dillon
Cherry-Shiree / Shylah Boyd
Parent as a verb / Donna Brook
The question of children / Jane Rule
All my kids / Elizabeth Marraffino-Rees
Imagining motherhood / Julia Alverez
From Black woman artist becoming / Bell Hooks
From Journal of a solitude / May Sarton
Upbringing / Milly Peacock.
