Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey

by Anne Taylor Fleming

A respected journalist describes her journey into the physically and emotionally challenging world of fertility procedures encountered by millions of women who have deferred pregnancy and are agonizing over whether they want children or are able to have them. Reprint.

Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction

256 pages, Paperback

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.