Mature Unwed Mothers: Narratives of Moral Resistance

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This text describes the moral decision-making process toward unwed motherhood based on a 15-year longitudinal study of 50 Israeli single women aged 30 and over, each of whom decided to have a child on her own following a short- or long-term relationship with a male partner. The author views these women as conscious resisters to the societal script of marriage, reproduction and motherhood, and documents their narratives of moral subjectivity.