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10 As the inhabitant of a female body , this description gives me pause . The
boundaries of the ego seem to me much less crudely definable than the words "
inner " and " outer " suggest . I do not perceive myself as a walled city into which ...
10 As the inhabitant of a female body , this description gives me pause . The
boundaries of the ego seem to me much less crudely definable than the words "
inner " and " outer " suggest . I do not perceive myself as a walled city into which ...
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TRASEUTU - PL male body . But institutionalized heterosexuality and
institutionalized motherhood demand that the girlchild transfer those first feelings
of dependency , eroticism , mutuality , from her first woman to a man , if she is to
become ...
TRASEUTU - PL male body . But institutionalized heterosexuality and
institutionalized motherhood demand that the girlchild transfer those first feelings
of dependency , eroticism , mutuality , from her first woman to a man , if she is to
become ...
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He felt the female body to be impure ; he did not like its natural smells . His
incorporeality was a way of disengaging himself from that lower realm where
women sweated , excreted , grew bloody every month , became pregnant . ( My
mother ...
He felt the female body to be impure ; he did not like its natural smells . His
incorporeality was a way of disengaging himself from that lower realm where
women sweated , excreted , grew bloody every month , became pregnant . ( My
mother ...
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Contents
Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution |
| Author | Adrienne Cecile Rich |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Bantam Books, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 31 Oct 2008 |
| Length | 328 pages |
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