Creating a Life Professional Women and the Quest for Children

"The arguments Hewlett's book has unleashed reveal both the distortions of the public debate on feminism and the unfinished business of feminism itself. For her critics, it's as if focusing on marriage and children automatically compromises women's freedom and cramps their ambitions. It's as if looking for a husband has to be conducted as if we were still living in the 1950's. Certainly, that's the case in some of Hewlett's examples. Fundamentally, though, CREATING A LIFE is an attempt to help women think about how to get what they want. Her book is a jumping-off point for a national conversation that is long overdue."Hewlett, Sylvia Ann is the author of 'Creating a Life Professional Women and the Quest for Children', published 2002 under ISBN 9780786867660 and ISBN 0786867663.