This paper asks if women have an authentic "choice" vis-à-vis motherhood. It probes notions of agency, autonomy and subjecthood within the narratives of childfree women or those who choose not to have children, and the fence-sitters or those who are ambivalent about having children and procrastinate inconclusively.
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