Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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... culture may not have certain powers . Among the matrilineal Crow , for example , women take major honorific roles in ceremony and festival , but are debarred from social contacts and sacred objects during menstruation . Where women and ...
... culture may not have certain powers . Among the matrilineal Crow , for example , women take major honorific roles in ceremony and festival , but are debarred from social contacts and sacred objects during menstruation . Where women and ...
Page 71
... culture , but for their own values , it began to be possible to imag- ine that the patriarchal , patrilineal family of Western culture was neither as essential nor as inevitable as it had seemed . It began to be possible to imagine some ...
... culture , but for their own values , it began to be possible to imag- ine that the patriarchal , patrilineal family of Western culture was neither as essential nor as inevitable as it had seemed . It began to be possible to imagine some ...
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... culture ] was feminine . " * Unfortunately , this triad depends on a too - familiar dualism , be- tween man / culture / consciousness , and woman / nature / unconscious- ness . As a woman thinking , I experience no such division in my ...
... culture ] was feminine . " * Unfortunately , this triad depends on a too - familiar dualism , be- tween man / culture / consciousness , and woman / nature / unconscious- ness . As a woman thinking , I experience no such division in my ...
Contents
Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
Copyright | |
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