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Seven women raise a child together while redefining their place in society at the beginning of the feminist movement in Denmark in the 1970s. On New Year's Eve in Copenhagen in 1972, seven women gave birth to a child together: one gave birth, and the other six attended. They had met a year earlier at a feminist camp on a small island, and now, with about twenty other women's liberation activists, they inhabited three dilapidated apartment buildings in central Copenhagen. One of them became the country's first women's house, the nerve center of the feminist movement in Denmark, and the other two buildings were communal living spaces reserved for women only, and were Pernille Ibsen's first house. In this intimate portrait of life during the exhilarating early days of women's liberation in Scandinavia and radical social change around the world, she tells the stories of these seven women, her seven mothers. By recounting her mothers' histories—from their shared passions and beliefs to the political divisions over sexual identity that ultimately separated them—Ibsen captures the personality of each of her mothers, as well as the shared experiences that brought them together. While brilliantly reflecting the practical and emotional realities of her mothers' women-centered lives, Ibsen presents a captivating portrait of intertwined lives that, half a century ago, raised questions we still face today: What is a family? Who is the woman? Who has the right to determine that? My Seven Mothers provides a historical account of sexuality, gender, and feminism as they were constructed, discussed, and defined, and is a riveting revelation of the challenges and possibilities associated with liberation and radical social change during the 1970s. In this time of intense conflicts over family, sexuality, and child-rearing, the book reminds us that new worlds are always possible.