My Seven Mothers

Making a Family in the Danish Women's Movement

2025 INDIES Finalist
Finalist, Autobiography & Memoir (Adult Nonfiction)
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In Copenhagen in 1972, seven women had a child together: one gave birth and six others attended. In this intimate portrait of life during the exhilarating early days of women’s liberation, Pernille Ipsen tells the stories of these women, her seven mothers. A chronicle of gender, sexuality, and feminism, "My Seven Mothers" presents an engrossing picture of intersecting lives that raised questions we still grapple with today: What is a family? Who is a woman? And who gets to decide?