Let's just call what happened in the eighties the reclamation of motherhood... by women I knew and loved, hard-driving women with major careers who were after not just babies per se or motherhood per se, but after a reconciliation with their memories of their own mothers. So having a baby wasn't just having a baby. It became a major healing.
Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey (ed. Fawcett, 1995) - ISBN: 9780449983645