Motherhood Deferred

by Anne Taylor Fleming

A successful columnist offers an account of her later-in-life attempts to have a child, including forays into a variety of fertility procedures, coupled with memories of her generation of women and the influence on their lives of the Women's Movement.

Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction

256 pages, Hardcover

First published May 16, 1994

Reviews

[Rachel Olsen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book inspired me to pursue broadcast journalism when I was in college.

[Suzy · Rating 5 out of 5]

While middleaged baby boomers (like me) will relate to this first-person account, women who are college-age now would most benefit from the wisdom this able journalist has thoughtfully distilled from her own life experiences.
A voice as mature and measured as Anne Taylor Fleming's voice is too seldom heard in the strident rhetoric of what is called the women's movement.
She gently describes how that rhetoric led her -- in big ways and small throughout her young adulthood -- to abandon a lot that meant a lot to her as a woman.