Others Like Me: The Lives of Women Without Children
By (Author) Nicole Louie
Dialogue
Dialogue Books
24th September 2024
13th June 2024
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Womens health
Gender studies: women and girls
306.8743
Hardback
368
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 38mm
480g
A deeply personal exploration of childless and childfree women in their own words.
Others Like Me is the story of fourteen women around the world, from different walks of life, who don't have children. It's also the story of why Nicole Louie had to find these women and what they taught her. Part memoir, part exploration of childlessness through candid conversations, this book showcases the many ways in which people find fulfilment outside of parenthood. And because the social expectation to procreate weighs the most on women, Louie focuses solely on them, their experiences and how they flourish outside of motherhood. In doing so, she upends the stereotypes that diminish women who are not mothers by choice, infertility, circumstance or ambivalence and offers reassurance and companionship on a path less known.Nicole Louie is a writer and translator based in Ireland. A former content strategist and creative writer for virtual assistants, she holds a BA in advertising and postgraduate diplomas in literature and translation. When not writing, she is reading about the lives of women without children. Her essays about not having children have appeared in Oh Reader and Childfree Magazine, and her curated collections of books, movies and podcasts about childlessness by choice or circumstance can be found on Twitter and Instagram: @bynicolelouie. Others Like Me: The Lives of Women Without Children is her first book.