Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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Page 19
... child , I'd murder him . " ) These and similar experiences are not easily put aside . Small wonder that women gritting their teeth at the incessant demands of child - care still find it hard to acknowledge their children's growing ...
... child , I'd murder him . " ) These and similar experiences are not easily put aside . Small wonder that women gritting their teeth at the incessant demands of child - care still find it hard to acknowledge their children's growing ...
Page 254
... child and the woman in me has so craved this experience , that it seems the want of it must paralyze me . But now as ... child- less " women would choose to have children of their own . † She was later to bear a child , in Italy , to a ...
... child and the woman in me has so craved this experience , that it seems the want of it must paralyze me . But now as ... child- less " women would choose to have children of their own . † She was later to bear a child , in Italy , to a ...
Page 288
... child - care as a politi- cal commitment by all members of a community or by all " child - free " women ; communal child - raising ; the return to a " village " concept of community in which children could be integrated into the adult ...
... child - care as a politi- cal commitment by all members of a community or by all " child - free " women ; communal child - raising ; the return to a " village " concept of community in which children could be integrated into the adult ...
Contents
Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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