Without Child brings scope and depth to a subject that has long been misunderstood. Weaving rich materials from history, literature, religion, and sociology with Laurie Lisle's own and other personal stories, this groundbreaking book does what no other has done before--presents childlessness in a multifaceted and positive light. Most women grow up thinking they will become mothers. And many do follow that path. But for those women who are willingly or unwillingly without children, childlessness is a way of life that many of them must constantly defend. Without Child explores the facts and fallacies behind childlessness, what it means for women and society, and reminds us of how women can and do embrace this choice. Lisle contends that childless women are part of an ancient and respectable cultural tradition that includes Biblical matriarchs, celibate saints, and nineteenth century social reformers. However, like other aspects of women's history, this tradition has been forgotten and, in the process, maligned. Without Child brings childless women out of the shadows and places them back in women's history. Without Child also challenges the stigma of childlessness by offering childless women the life-affirming story of themselves. Beginning with the difficult inner journey a woman faces before finally deciding or realizing she will not bear children, Without Child explores the myth of the childless woman's rejection of the maternal instinct. It also explores the childless woman's relationship to mothers and mothering, to her femininity, to men, to achievement, to her body, and to old age. In the shadow of a culture that claims to adore the child, Without Child brings a long forbidden topic into the light. Wide-ranging, yet intimate, philosophical, yet clear-sighted, this important book will reassure millions of women that they are not alone, not unusual, and, in fact, are part of a long and honorable tradition.

Without Child

Politics & Social Sciences

Lisle, Laurie

Sociology

Ballantine Books

explores the myth of the childless woman's rejection of the maternal instinct. It also explores the childless woman's relationship to mothers and mothering, to her femininity, to men, to achievement, to her body, and to old age. Wide-ranging yet intimate, philosophical, yet clear-sighted, this important book does what no other has done before-presents childlessness in a multifaceted and positive light.

Without Child: Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness

Social Sciences

Routledge

Recollections of more than one hundred of O'Keeffe's friends, relatives colleagues, and neighbors as well as published and previously unpublished historical records and letters are used to provide an in-depth study of the celebrated painter's life

Portrait Of An Artist : A Biography Of Georgia O'keeffe

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Heinemann

Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life

Now in a revised edition, Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life is the only biography of this important 20th century American sculptor. From her birth in Russia, her girlhood in Maine, to her years as an artist in Manhattan, Nevelson's life was difficult, dramatic and, after years of struggle, finally triumphant. Her rich iconographyexpressed in black, white, and gold wooden assemblagesis an enormous and extraordinary prize-winning body of work found in parks, plazas, and museums throughout the world. "Lisle has conscientiously investigated the numerous bizarre events in Nevelson's long life" -Washington Post Book World "Lisle's book is impressive in its thoroughness . . . its eclectic introduction of psychological analysis" -Woman's Art Journal "Lisle's view of Nevelson's often ruthless behavior is both compassionate and clear-eyed . . . [and she] has constructed a colorful, rich study of Nevelson's creative evolution" -The Boston Sunday Herald

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

iUniverse, Inc.

Recollections of more than one hundred of O’Keeffe’s friends, relatives, colleagues, and neighbors as well as published and previously unpublished historical records and letters are used to provide the first full-length biography and in-depth study of the celebrated painter’s life. Georgia O’Keeffe’s personal mystique is as intriguing and enduring as her bold, brilliant canvases. Portrait of an Artist is the first full account of her exceptional life—from her girlhood and early days as a controversial art teacher, to her discovery by the pioneering photographer of the New York avant-garde, Alfred Stieglitz, to her seclusion in the New Mexico desert where she lived until her death at ninety-eight. Equipped with passion, steadfastness, and three years poring over research, former Newsweek reporter Laurie Lisle finally shines a light on one of the most significant and innovative twentieth century artists.

Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe

Atria Books

Washington Square Press 1981 softcover 486 pages

Portrait of an Artist: A biography of Georgia O'Keeffe

Washington Square Press

Recounts the life of one of the most flamboyant artists of the twentieth century--including her immigration from czarist Russia, her brief marriage and controversial divorce, and her all-consuming struggle for recognition as an artist

Simon&Schuster

Community & Culture

Laurie Lisle

Westover, a girls' school in Middlebury, Connecticut, was founded in 1909 by emancipated "New Women," educator Mary Hillard and architect Theodate Pope Riddle. Landscape designer Beatrix Farrand did the plantings. It has evolved from a finishing school for the Protestant elite, including F. Scott Fitzgerald's first love, to a meritocracy for pupils of many religions and races from all over the world. The fascinating account of the ups and downs of this female community is the subject of Laurie Lisle's lively and well-researched book. The author describes the innovations of the idealistic minister's daughter who founded the school in 1909, her intellectual successor who turned it into a college preparatory school in the 1930s, the quiet headmaster who managed to keep it open during the turbulent 1970s, and the prize-winning mathematics teacher, wife, and mother who later lead the high school. This beautifully illustrated book tells an important story about female education during decades of dramatic change in America.

Westover: Giving Girls a Place of Their Own (Garnet Books)

History

Americas

Wesleyan University Press

Recollections of more than one hundred of O'Keeffe's friends, relatives, colleagues, and neighbors as well as published and previously unpublished historical records and letters are used to provide an in-depth study of the celebrated painter's life

Portrait of an Artist : A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe

Univ of New Mexico Pr

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Without Child

Without Child: Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness

Portrait Of An Artist : A Biography Of Georgia O'keeffe

Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life

Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe

Portrait of an Artist: A biography of Georgia O'Keeffe

Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life

Without Child: Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness

Westover: Giving Girls a Place of Their Own (Garnet Books)

Portrait of an Artist : A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe