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In my own pregnancy I dealt with this waiting , this female fate , by denying every
active , powerful aspect of myself . I became dissociated both from my immediate
, present , bodily experience and from my reading , thinking , writing life .
In my own pregnancy I dealt with this waiting , this female fate , by denying every
active , powerful aspect of myself . I became dissociated both from my immediate
, present , bodily experience and from my reading , thinking , writing life .
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Later , in the mid - sixties , I underwent a series of operations for arthritis which
demanded my active engagement in painful physiotherapy if I was to walk freely
again . “ Womanliness ” was not in question then ; but also , I 118 OF WOMAN ...
Later , in the mid - sixties , I underwent a series of operations for arthritis which
demanded my active engagement in painful physiotherapy if I was to walk freely
again . “ Womanliness ” was not in question then ; but also , I 118 OF WOMAN ...
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Ben Barker - Benfield suggests that the anxiety , frustration , and impotence
experienced by the seventeenth - century New England woman , living under the
double pressure of God ' s unknowable will and man ' s exclusion of her from
active ...
Ben Barker - Benfield suggests that the anxiety , frustration , and impotence
experienced by the seventeenth - century New England woman , living under the
double pressure of God ' s unknowable will and man ' s exclusion of her from
active ...
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