Motherhood Optional: A Psychological Journey

by Phyllis Ziman Tobin, Barbara Aria, Phyllis O. Ziman Tobin

Book Overview

Reminding women that motherhood is an option, not a given (much less an instinct), New York psychotherapist Phyllis Ziman Tobin contends that choosing to be or not to be a mother is the defining rite of passage for today's woman. She draws on the composite struggles of real people to show how the dilemma is rooted in unexamined assumptions about normalcy, fear of change and loss of control, and the not always audible voices of our own mothers. Dr...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765701278
• ISBN13: 9780765701275
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

very readable discussion of motherhood as a choice

This book is a must for any woman considering having children. Very clear readable discussion of motherhood as a choice. Discusses ambivalance about motherhood and what that ambivalance may be telling you.